The Beneficial Use of Pet Portals for Veterinary Clients The veterinary field has advanced over the years with more people having family pets along with medical enhancements within the field. In turn, technological advances have also been made. Human medicine has used patient portals so that people can have easy access to their medical records. Recently, veterinary medicine has introduced pet portals; however, little research is associated with their use for veterinary clients.
The purpose of this applied quantitative research study was to explore the use of pet portals by investigating if clients identify that pet portals help them better manage their pet’s health care. On September 8, 2015 a survey was distributed to clients of a small animal veterinary hospital located in St. Petersburg, FL. The clinic had 13,869 clients at the time of surveying. Of those clients, 3,102 clients had their email addresses on file. Surveys were sent individually to clients as this method provided automatic log in to the pet portal for the client’s convenience. This process took a great deal of time and greatly reduced the number of surveys being distributed. Individual surveys were sent out to 822 clients
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In addition to the reduced number of distributed surveys, there was no way to determine what email addresses were active as the pet portal system does not receive notices of undeliverable emails. Out of the 822 emails sent out 39 clients responded (4.74%, n=39). However, of those responded, 3 participants created the survey by agreeing to the informed consent and accepting to participate but never completed the survey (0.35%, n=3). Consequently, thirty-six participants’ data was used in the data analysis, resulting in a response rate of
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“It depends on where people work usually, but the workers come in and check the pets that are in hospital that need additional care. Then in some way, workers have checklists for each hospitalized pet, so if they need medications, bandage changes, etc, workers can then keep track easier. Then workers go on to do medication for any animals that are boarding with the clinic in kennels. After that they check in pets that are coming for surgery or for a drop off exam/treatment.... ... middle of paper ...
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There seemed to be hardly any difference in the volume of office visits for the patients who used an electronic messaging program with a patient portal, based on a retroactive research of 2,357 adult primary care patients in Mayo Clinic’s Rochester, MN. The research was from April 2010 to August 2011. The researchers stated in the study that the portal has actually been promoted in order to reduce expenses on appointment setting up as ...
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In summary the benefits or employing or deploying a patient portal clearly out weigh the concerns of the delaying the project. When correctly implemented and properly deployed the organizational advantages can be:
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