Telehealth physician Visits via Video Calls

Millions of employees, students, businessmen etc. are now constricting themselves telehealth through insurance companies or directly to cut down their medical costs. Moreover such kind of technology embedded technology gives patients more options than to go and book appointment with doctors physically. This technology gives patients direct access to their Telehealth physician via different mediums such as chat, voice mail or video calls and you have 24-hours access to these doctors.

The Affordable Care Act, many times also called as "Obamacare" is a USA’s federal statute signed into law by Barack Obama (President of US) and this act is acting as funnel to drive more and more patients in the combination of technology and medical care as there is huge shortage and physicians and as per an estimate by the Association of American Medical Colleges, this shortage is will be increasing every year and by 2020 United States with have 91,500 lesser doctors than actually needed. 

Telemedicine physician surely will help in bridging this gap or scarcity of doctors and thereby revolutionizing telehealth care services by saving both time & money

Benefits:

• Telemedicine Physician has option of working from home or office.

• Telemedicine providers will send patients to these doctors

• Patients are free to consult doctors over secure messaging, telephone or   teleconferencing

• Easy payment plan.

• Additional income  for physicians on full time/ part time basis

• No insurance headaches.

• Enhances the value and offers great flexibility

• Quality and Affordable Health Care services

Telehealth physician can give a better option to the patients by having better access their doctors through email, telephones or camera-equipped devices. They work well for minor problems like cough, cold, pink eyes, sprains or flu.

Many Telehealth companies track the prescribing practices of the Telehealth physician to make sure that they are on the right track of prescriptions and the level of these prescriptions is of high standards. Many service providers often guide patients to even follow up with their doctors whenever they get time

As per AMA (American Medical Association) 70% of all the doctors visit to the patients are basically just for information purpose or the majority of these queries and problems could be handled easily over the phone. 

40% of Emergency Room visits by physicians could be easily be avoided by having a high quality telehealtcare plan. 

Studies have also proved that majority of patients are not comfortable visiting hospitals or waiting in the smelting and stinking waiting rooms.

A patient sometimes, due to rural area constraints i.e. money, travel cost, too much travel etc, would otherwise not have access to the specialist physician but through telemedicine.