The average cancer patient might have 50-100+ appointments over the course of their entire journey. They often have appointments with primary care physicians, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, nurses, surgeons, nutritionists, therapists, social workers, palliative care physicians and nurses, and so on. One must rapidly obtain their bachelor’s degree in cancer navigation in order to stay above water with all the information.
The majority of people are overwhelmed in being the project manager while also facing the common side effects that come from surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and survivorship. To assist the patient, often a loved one attends the appointment to help get all the notes and information so they can later remind the patient at-home. Not all caregivers in that patients life can attend and sometimes the patient is alone at the appointment facing all this information.
Put in the patient’s shoes, they are often scared, anxious, tired, and doing their best to keep track of everything. Especially questions that their caregivers said they should ask at the next appointment.
To combat this complex problem, the ReneCare platform is introducing the newest innovation to patient-centered oncology care: AnswerAssist™ Q&A Summarizer. AnswerAssist™ organizes all appointment related questions you and your caregivers have, empowers you to record the appointment conversation, and automatically searches the appointment recording to see if all questions were answered. If they were, the answer appears under each question. If they weren’t answered, now you know in the appointment and you can ask for clarification.
AnswerAssist™ makes healthcare appointments eaiser for patients, caregivers, and clinicians by streamlining the complex process that exists today for keeping everyone on the same page. By keeping everyone aligned at each of the 50-100+ appointments, it results in the patient getting the best patient-centered care on this long and arduous journey.
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