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Telemedicine and Internet Doctor Consults Save Patients Time and Money

Advancements in telemedicine and internet access now allow physicians and other healthcare providers to interact with and treat patients remotely via telecommunication. The extensive benefits of telemedicine include doctors being able to:

extend medical care to rural areas previously too isolated to have access
treat the chronically ill and those with mobility challenges more readily
extend their specialty practices far beyond their geographical sphere. For the majority of telemed...

How Will Telemedicine Consulting Affect Jobs in the Medical Field?

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Telemedicine is the term given to telecommunications technology used by physicians and other healthcare professionals to connect remotely to their patients. By now, most of us have taken advantage of telemedicine consulting by reaching out to our doctors using technology. Whether by email, phone calls, video chat, or mobile app, it’s become common practice for us to reach out to our health care providers via telemedicine.

With the rapid growth of telemedicine over the last few decades, ...

Best Telemedicine Benefits

September 30, 2017 | administrator

Telemedicine has been a revolutionary force in the medical field. Though it was originally intended to provide access to individuals who could not directly access medical care, the best telemedicine providers have proven to have positive benefits extending far beyond these humble early goals.

Here is our hand-picked list of the top 6 benefits of telemedicine today.

Improved Access to Providers and Specialists

In keeping with the early stated goal of providing health care access to tho...

Quality Online Medical Consultation

September 8, 2017 | onlinedoctorvisit

Online Medical Consultation:

When the wealthy face addiction, they have the resources to place their lives on hold and enter treatment, choose sober living facilities, and remain in outpatient treatment indefinitely. For those with less financial resources, especially in rural areas, there are very few realistic addiction treatment options available.

Treatment centers in rural and poverty-stricken areas are few and far between. Even if a patient were able to find placement in a facilit...

How does Telemedicine compliment Physical Therapy?

August 2, 2017 | onlinedoctorvisit

Physical therapy is the process of helping patients rehabilitate a part of the body or the body as a whole as a result of disease, injury or surgery. Rather than using medication, physical therapy applies the use of heat treatment, massage, and most importantly, exercise, to get patients back to doing the activities they love and restoring their former quality of life.

Many physical therapists feel that their patient outcomes are simply not optimal, for several very valid reasons. Due to a na...

Telemedicine in Space?

August 2, 2017 | onlinedoctorvisit

Telemedicine, or the remote monitoring, diagnosing, and treatment of patients using telecommunication technologies, was developed, first used, and fully trusted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, to care for astronauts in space. Astronauts face severe physical challenges in the vacuum of space, including radiation exposure, physiological adaptation to microgravity, extreme temperatures, and the rigors of leaving and re-entering our planetary atmosphere.

A...

Telemedicine grows in popularity across the United States

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Telemedicine continues to grow in popularity across the United States. The healthcare industry faces significant ongoing challenges, including the rising costs of health care, a shortage of primary care providers, and limited access to health care in broad swaths of rural areas. Each of these issues can be at least partially ameliorated by giving patients increased access to healthcare providers via telemedicine.

However, new technology brings new challenges, and physicians must be ...

Telehealth: How it may be the most breakthrough innovation of 2017

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No patient wants to consider that the physician caring for them might be just as prone to error as any other professional, but the data says the patient has great cause for concern. Although trust is key in the physician-patient relationship, Johns Hopkins reported in 2016 that medical errors are now the third leading cause of death in the United States.

Medical errors are responsible for 250,000 deaths each year in the United States. Whether these deaths occur as a result of inappr...

The Leading Cause of Heart Failure

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Heart disease is still the number one killer in the USA, which of course everyone has heard a multitude of times by now. No category of disease affects the lives of Americans more than cardiovascular disease, which still causes one out of every three deaths in our country. Additionally, 92.1 million Americans live with some form of cardiovascular disease or the after-effects of a stroke.

In addition to the staggering loss of life, there’s a financial impact. Directly and indirectly, this fo...

Online Doctor Visits for Kids

May 1, 2017 | onlinedoctorvisit

Every parent has been there:
it’s 2 a.m., your child has a cold, and they’re crying that their ear hurts. You don’t want to jump in your car and head to the emergency room, but you need to make sure that your child will be all right. With a membership to onlinedoctorvisit.com, you have access to a pediatrician 24/7 from the comfort of your own home. Instead of bundling up your sick child and taking them to the crowded, germ-filled emergency room, you can connect with a pediatrician from ...