Physician Usage of Email with Patient Remains Low
Only 29% of doctors say they use email to communicate with patients, according to the Sources & Interactions Study, September 2013 – Medical/Surgical Edition. This percentage has only increased 2% year-over-year.
The age of the physicians isn’t a differentiator either. Younger doctors tend to use email to communicate with patients as frequently as older physicians. The one major difference found in the study is that almost half (48%) of Key Opinion Leaders use email to communicate with patients, a significant difference compared with other physicians.
Kantar Media’s Sources & Interactions™ Studies offer a detailed examination of healthcare professionals’ online and mobile activities, e-detailing experience, and exposure to (and evaluation of) information sources including traditional and emerging media, pharma reps, CME, conventions and more. The Medical/Surgical edition, conducted every six months, reports on the media preferences and habits of more than 3,000 physicians across 22 specialties; annual studies provide similar perspective on Pharmacy, NP/PA, Eyecare, Dental, Radiology, Managed Care, and Hospital C-Suite audiences. Sources & Interactions was designed to help marketers and their agencies cost-effectively allocate resources to their overall promotional mix, and provide publishers with specific insight about where their offerings fit into physicians’ (and other healthcare professionals’) information inventory.
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