Patient Engagement
Patient Engagement refers to a suite of functionalities like scheduling appointments, facilitating patient intake, managing patient payments, and administrative messaging. Typical features include sending appointment and payment reminders to ensure patients are adequately informed and prepared for their healthcare interactions. While these solutions primarily focus on administrative tasks, their ultimate goal is to ensure patient access to healthcare services, from securing an appointment to finalizing payment post-visit.
Product Usage: The reviewers, working in a health services startup, use Weave for patient communications, particularly making phone calls and sending SMS to patients.
Strengths: Weave’s strengths include affordability, HIPAA compliance, and basic communication functionalities like voice call and SMS.
Weaknesses: Weaknesses comprise dispersed and inconsistent customer support, lack of software-based option, and difficulties in phone setup.
Overall Judgment: The reviewers find Weave satisfactory for the current basic communication needs, though they express concerns about its ability to meet future requirements.
Product Usage: The product is used for automating data collection of custom intake questionnaires, facilitating virtual visits, and remote patient monitoring.
Strengths: The product’s affordability and quick setup due to its existing marketplace relationship with athenahealth are its main strengths.
Weaknesses: The product has functionality limitations, struggles with reliability especially for the virtual visit feature, and could utilize API connectivity with athenahealth better.
Overall Judgment: The product does not fully meet the company’s needs in terms of reliability and integration with athenahealth, and it may not have been the best choice compared to potentially better vendors in the market.