{"id":447,"date":"2009-09-14T10:04:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T14:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=447"},"modified":"2009-09-14T10:04:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T14:04:25","slug":"telehealth-visiting-a-doctor-via-webcam-begins-to-slowly-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/14\/telehealth-visiting-a-doctor-via-webcam-begins-to-slowly-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Telehealth (Visiting a Doctor via Webcam) Begins To Slowly Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year <a href=\"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/07\/sick-need-a-doctor-now-you-can-get-treated-via-web-cam\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>I did a post<\/strong><\/a> about <strong>telehealth<\/strong>, or <strong>telemedicine<\/strong> as it&#8217;s sometimes called.  This is where instead of seeing a doctor in person, you have your appointment via webcam.<\/p>\n<p>Initially the idea wasn&#8217;t too popular with people&#8230;but times are changing&#8230;fast.\u00a0 Online communication is becoming so commonplace, particularly when video is involved, that now people are beginning to view the idea of consulting with a physician via video chat as more attractive than driving for an hour and waiting in an office.<\/p>\n<p>But are patients actually using telehealth services like this?\u00a0 And how exactly does it work?\u00a0 The <strong>Baltimore Sun<\/strong> recently did an article about this growing healthcare trend.\u00a0 You can read it by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/business\/bal-bz.mobile14sep14,0,136812.story\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>clicking here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year I did a post about telehealth, or telemedicine as it&#8217;s sometimes called. This is where instead of seeing a doctor in person, you have your appointment via webcam. Initially the idea wasn&#8217;t too popular with people&#8230;but times are changing&#8230;fast.\u00a0 Online communication is becoming so commonplace, particularly when video is involved, that now [&hellip;]<\/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":[307,131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447"}],"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=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}