Yes, certainly.
One of the things that can help is for patients to have the ability to report their symptoms, patient-reported outcomes, and for that information to be transferred, and maybe in the future to populate that physician's EMR so that right when a patient comes in, they know. They see on their screen why the patient is coming in. That would be one thing.
Another thing is that a lot of time is spent on managing chronic diseases and chronic care. With our system, we have the nurse who actually helps to provide the support for both the primary care physician and the patient around those lifestyle, behaviour, and self-management strategies that physicians would otherwise be expected to do, but may not have the time to talk about, such as how exercising is going to improve your blood sugar. These conversations should happen with a patient, but they don't need to happen by the physician.