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On March 24, 2015, Utah Governor Gary Herbert passed the HB 121 bill to expand interstate telehealth coverage in Utah. The bill, which makes Utah the third state to have such regulations as part of the Federal State Medical Board's -compact-, will allow medical practitioners increased permission to use telehealth technology across state borders once four more states sign on to the compact. The passage...
April 17, 2015
I just attended a very useful meeting, where there is a consensus that maybe how we practice primary care, an ideal, is actually a failure in reality. To some, it could look like a big power trip for a physician to invite you into her or his “territory,” ask you to sit on the end of a hard examination table half-naked, and offer no recognition that you took a half day off and maybe a quarter of tank...
March 28, 2015
Telemedicine is here: - Telemedicine, for those not familiar with the term, was conceived four decades ago and is literally “healing at a distance,” according to the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO’s telemedicine interpretation is: - The delivery of health care services, where distance is a critical factor, by all health care professionals using information and communication technologies… all...
March 26, 2015
There certainly is a role for “Doc in the Box" TeleMedicine access to all patients: especially those that research a condition and looking for an expert or “secondary" opinion. In other words, there is an important role to have physicians and other licensed people, with particular expertise in conditions or sub conditions, handling informational consultations, akin to free market access for anyone...
February 26, 2015
Most physician visits have more to do with information and consultation than actual treatment (e.g. prescriptions). What is now emerging are companies recruiting physicians to take information calls, presumably to back up a person's search on the internet with more professional advice. After all, people do trust physicians more than any other source. With ObamaCare and the tectonic shifts in health...
February 20, 2015
Internet users are rating their doctors - by the thousands. Wellness.com has collected more than 620,000 patient reviews and 1.1 million satisfaction survey responses. This growing base of consumer reviews and survey data makes healthcare practitioners and procedures easier to shop. Have you reviewed your doctor yet? - Keep in mind that star ratings and reviews are discretionary feedback by people...
June 20, 2014
Your next doctor visit could very well be online.- If not this year, it won’t be long before your doctor will be available online to answer routine questions, discuss treatment options and even prescribe medications for common illnesses. Scheduling, driving, parking, walking, and waiting just to get a quick question answered or a needed prescription is terribly inefficient and costly to you and your...
September 19, 2013
In the not too recent past, physicians actually made house calls. And not too long ago by historical time, these calls were by horse and buggy to deliver babies, set fractures, and to attend to pain. Health care has gone forward in many ways since then, but, sadly, backwards in the way personal care is delivered. Now healthcare is with an insurance company in the way, 5 minute doctor visits, drugs...
June 25, 2013
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