In the post-pandemic environment, consumers are expecting a more personalized experience. The pandemic exposed long-term, unresolved health disparities, triggering self-reflection across industries (especially in healthcare) to make diversity, equity, and inclusion a priority.
Our client wanted to take a proactive approach to ensure that marginalized groups were being reached adequately and equitably by its virtual care services. So, we partnered with the health system to develop a strategy, analysis, and new digital approach to make its future-state experience more inclusive for all its patients and their loved ones.
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Repairing Health Disparities Means Better Care for All
We performed comparative analyses and incorporated inclusive content, navigation, and terminology throughout the client’s website. To make the Find-a-Doctor experience more equitable, we added LGBTQ+ clinical subspecialty tags to its provider search filter to help patients readily identify experienced allies.
This inclusive functionality, resulted in:
- A 312% increase in appointment requests
- A 425% increase in open scheduling
- a 7,000% increase in provider searches that included “LGBTQ”
This new digital approach organically navigates users to the diverse and personalized content that they expect based on analysis-driven best practices.
A well-planned and executed strategy for addressing equity, diversity, and inclusion creates a healthier and more welcoming environment for team members to build patient trust, elevate consumer satisfaction, drive higher-quality care, and reduce health disparities.
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Digital Experience Solutions
With Perficient’s expertise in healthcare and customer experience solutions, we equipped a leading health system with a solution that reimagined the patient experience with diversity, equity, and inclusion in mind.
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