Bariatric Advantage Nutritional Supplements

Educating your weight loss surgery patients has never been this easy!

Have you ever wondered how you can build a better rapport with your weight loss surgery patients?
Do you think your website can adequately educate your patients about their procedures and follow-up treatment?
Do you and your staff spend too much time explaining the same things to your patients over and over?

Educating bariatric surgery patients is a sensitive issue that can have a significant impact on the patient/surgeon relationship. From experience, we know how time-consuming and frustrating this process can be for a busy practice. You need more time to operate, but tasks such as organizing educational seminars and answering dozens of phone calls can consume much of your and your staff’s time.

Have you ever wondered how other bariatric surgeons utilize the power of the Internet to educate their weight loss surgery patients in a fraction of the time? How do they handle long waiting lists? Do they use third parties or hire more staff? Are they using a tool that is available to you?

Info-Surge online patient education is the key

Educating your weight loss surgery patients is easy and affordable with Info-Surge online education! With Info-Surge, you can deliver personalized, consistent, and accurate medical information about your patients’ upcoming procedures. The Info-Surge online patient education system is a self-paced learning experience that includes interactive e-learning courses, downloadable materials, quizzes, surveys, videos, and much more. Patients access the system directly from your website. Info-Surge can save you valuable staff time and resources while ensuring that each patient receives comprehensive education about his or her surgical procedure.

Is online patient education intended to replace all of your educational seminars and in-person consultations? Of course not! But supplementing these traditional educational activities with the Info-Surge system can:

-          enhance patient care by empowering patients to take more responsibility for their health and providing them with easy-to-understand information that they can view anytime and share with their loved ones

-          save time by decreasing the frequency of meetings and preparing patients for more personalized, efficient consultations

-          improve risk management by tracking patient participation, enhancing informed consent documentation, and delivering consistent education messages every time to every patient

-          expand your marketing opportunities by adding more interactivity to your website, providing potential patients with on-demand information about surgical procedures, and allowing you to contact prospective patients who have registered on your website with a follow-up call or email.

Info-Surge online educational programs can supplement your patient care with accurate, detailed information about each procedure, follow-up care, exercise, and nutrition that patients can review at any time. As an Internet-based service, patients have access to it anywhere an Internet connection is available. You and your staff can easily monitor patient progress by viewing reports of patient activity, including quiz results that test comprehension of medical information about procedures.

Do my bariatric patients need to have advanced computer/web skills?

Your patients do not need to possess advanced computer/Internet skills to take advantage of Info-Surge online learning. A survey of 3,200 patients (unpublished data) revealed that weight loss surgery patients are usually computer literate and web savvy; however, even patients who are not computer literate were very satisfied with online patient education as a means of learning about their medical care. Info-Surge programs are patient-friendly and simple to operate. As Internet access becomes more common and medical practices increasingly use EHR (Electronic Health Record) technologies, online patient education is gaining popularity. Your bariatric patients can view your customized online educational programs from their homes, your office, or from any remote locations connected to the Internet. It’s that simple!

Conclusion

You can start saving time and money with the affordable Info-Surge online patient education system now. There is no hardware or software to buy, load, or maintain, and the system is easy to use. If you would like to learn more about online patient education for your bariatric surgery patients, please view a demo here: http://www.info-surge.com/bariatricdemo/player.html.

Register no later than July 30th for your free thirty-day trial!

About the Author

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Info-Surge, founded by healthcare professionals in 2005, produces custom online patient education modules that provide physicians with solutions to the daily challenges of time constraints, malpractice risks, increasing competition, and unrealistic patient expectations. Info-Surge’ s online education systems combine the benefits of e-learning software with the advantages of patient-friendly medical courses. To learn more, visit http://www.info-surge.com or call 1-888-203-0465.

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