Online Medical Consultating

New surveys have shown that the majority of people want
email access to their physicians and more than half would
change doctors to go to one who provided such a service.

Also more than forty percent of patients would pay for
online access to their physician. This could include
emails, teleconferencing, online consultations and web cam
meetings.

Online consultation allows physician’s access to their
patients over the Internet and allows them to securely
communicate with them while still getting paid for their
services.

Physicians can communicate not only with patients, but also
with hospitals, other practitioners and providers and
others in the health care industry.

There is websites set-up now that offer online consulting
to both doctors and patients. One such is medem.com.

Getting started with an online consultation is easy and
takes about fifteen minutes to set-up. All it takes is
going to the website and registering online. For patients
it is as easy as creating an iHealthRecord.

You can then sign up for education programs and begin to
communicate with your physician. You can seek out a new
physician or meet with your own doctor if they are
available on the network.

Talk to your physician about signing up for a service like
online consultations. It will save the both of you time and
money.

With the rising prices of travel and the increasing number
of people who are seeking out the doctor’s time and advice,
your physician can spend more time with each patient and
decrease his workload at the same time. It would also help
those doctors who are treating patients who are too sick to
leave their homes.