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The Virtual Visit May Expand Access to Doctors
Colleagues,
As reported in the New York Times ... Americans could soon be able to see a doctor without getting out of bed, in a modern-day version of the house call that takes place over the Web...
... OptumHealth, a division of UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest health insurer, plans to offer NowClinic, a service that connects patients and doctors using video chat, nationwide next year. It is introducing it state by state, starting with Texas, but not without resistance from state medical associations...
... OptumHealth believes NowClinic will improve health care by ameliorating some of the stresses on the system today, like wasted time dealing with appointments and insurance claims, a shortage of primary care physicians and limited access to care for many patients...
... Rashid Bashshur, director of telemedicine at the University of Michigan Health System, say online medicine is a less expensive way of providing routine care ... "The argument that you need the ‘laying on of hands’ to practice medicine is an old and tired argument that simply has no credibility,” he said. “There are two constants in medicine: change and resistance to change.”...
Read on at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/technology/start-ups/21doctors.ht...
ENJOY!
CC
As reported in the New York Times ... Americans could soon be able to see a doctor without getting out of bed, in a modern-day version of the house call that takes place over the Web...
... OptumHealth, a division of UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest health insurer, plans to offer NowClinic, a service that connects patients and doctors using video chat, nationwide next year. It is introducing it state by state, starting with Texas, but not without resistance from state medical associations...
... OptumHealth believes NowClinic will improve health care by ameliorating some of the stresses on the system today, like wasted time dealing with appointments and insurance claims, a shortage of primary care physicians and limited access to care for many patients...
... Rashid Bashshur, director of telemedicine at the University of Michigan Health System, say online medicine is a less expensive way of providing routine care ... "The argument that you need the ‘laying on of hands’ to practice medicine is an old and tired argument that simply has no credibility,” he said. “There are two constants in medicine: change and resistance to change.”...
Read on at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/technology/start-ups/21doctors.ht...
ENJOY!
CC
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