The Hawaii Medical Association (Hawaii’s Blue Cross\/Blue Shield insurance provider) has announced that starting next week, patients can start receiving doctor consults via web cam.<\/p>\n
Yes, doctor visits via web cam.<\/p>\n
At first blush, it sounds crazy.\u00a0 After all, doctors have to see and touch you in order to form a diagnosis, right?\u00a0 Well, that’s where lines get a little blurry.\u00a0 That’s because doctor’s receive a lot of phone calls from people who…more or less…are wanting to be diagnosed over the phone (without coming in for a visit).\u00a0 And doctor’s don’t get paid to communicate…they get paid for office visits and procedures.<\/p>\n
In fact, some proponents of this new “treatment” method claim that doctor’s can take care of roughly 50% of people’s medical problems without face to face visits.<\/p>\n
So now (in the case of the program being offered in Hawaii), for just a $10 co-pay you can skip scheduling appointments weeks in advance, skip the travel, skip the waiting room and consult with a doctor over video.<\/p>\n
But here are my questions for you<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Would you “see” a doctor over video?\u00a0 Do you think this is a wise application (in a business sense) of web video?\u00a0 And if you work\/have worked in the medical field, what are your thoughts on this new “telemedicine” approach to medical treatment?<\/p>\n I’d love to hear your thoughts.\u00a0 Post your comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Hawaii Medical Association (Hawaii’s Blue Cross\/Blue Shield insurance provider) has announced that starting next week, patients can start receiving doctor consults via web cam. Yes, doctor visits via web cam. At first blush, it sounds crazy.\u00a0 After all, doctors have to see and touch you in order to form a diagnosis, right?\u00a0 Well, that’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[131,132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}