- Virtual Care: Doctors in remote ‘command centers’ are increasingly keeping tabs on vital signs of patients in intensive-care units.
- Medical Detectives: Got a hard-to-diagnosis ailment? Patients can now post their symptoms online and offer a reward for a diagnosis from a host of doctors.
- Doctor on Demand: You can have a virtual consultation with a physician for nonemergency medical issues.
- Personal Care: Bedside tablets let hospital patients text the nurse. Patients can check their own charts and lab results.
- Transparency: New insurance tools let patients compare the price of care between hospitals and calculate out-of-pocket costs.
More on the WSJ.
I can understand the doctors’ opposition to virtual monitoring but patient health should come first.
Virtual monitoring could shed light on embarrassing missteps.
Always. Sadly, profits sometimes do instead.
I’m interested to hear on the progress with the medical detectives website. If crowdsourcing can actually work better, this could dramatically reduce the need for specialty care.
I agree with your earlier sentiment but I’m not sure if the latter is quite true. These diagnoses won’t always be accurate. Even if a specialist does not diagnose right away, they will still know if potential diagnoses are right or wrong.
Yes, but these online sources can’t prescribe treatment and herein is the problem.
Remember the old joke about pharmacists? Well, now we have a solution.
Bravo on the transparency innovation.
Bravo on the transparency innovation!
Those nurses better turn off the read receipt.
Haha. I see your point. Especially with more problematic patients.
Sure beats the Heck out of getting stuck for an hour in a physician’s waiting room full of contagious, sick people.