Nearly 70% of the United States who seek online medical Internet real progress (1)

Doctor-patient communication is gradually changing to network online.

Today 68% of adults in the United States began to retrieve medical information on the Internet, many people also want online doctor. But can they do depends largely on whether doctors from online paid medical services

Online medical consultation, also known as an outpatient, already applied to the following two aspects: diagnosis and treatment of non-anxious to answer a variety of small patients, disease, symptoms or prescription of consultation questions.

A health information company, Manhattan Institute's Vice President Meredith said Ressi, approximately 42% of patients with a doctor who and the United States online discussion of clinical symptoms, and patients over 9,000,000 has worked with doctors to communicate via e-mail.

However, according to the last year, in all diagnostic and therapeutic services provided online, doctors are paid less than 5% of doctors.

With the large insurance companies, such as Aetna, Cigna, Wellpoint company, Humana, start online medical consultation of compensation schemes, this situation will gradually improve.

Average 30 e-patient only charges $ General clinic is charging $ 75 to 100.

In General, doctors will not through e-mail to provide convenient service "" (such as appointment, provide inspection results) which are paid by telephone exchange.

E-clinic involves a lot of IT new technologies, including easy ways to email, as well as Well by the RelayHealth, American, MDLiveCare and SwiftMD, company provides online video or telephone for immediate online access.

"Not all patients will have to go to hospital and medical monitoring," popular medical blog (kevinmd.com) of the author, New Hampshire, Nashua medical group of physicians Kevin Pho, "for patients, face-to-face General clinic is neither easy nor cheap.

And I personally believe that medical insurance companies have begun to realize that the cost of e-patient paid not only to save money, you can help care for patients. ”

In addition to lowering the cost of diagnosis and treatment, providing convenience for patients no longer be a headache for small flaws cerebral heat and ran to the clinic, the experts also pointed out that the use of e-patient help doctors on patient concerns a more timely response, but also for those who really need to go out-patient medical treatment of people with more convenience.

Aetna national network and contracting company director Paul Marchetti, up to 35% of medical events in ambulatory care centers, outpatient clinic or e-mail (instead of out-patient) can handle.

Since 2006 the company has to pay the costs of diagnosis and treatment online, which allows its members enjoy the RelayHealth company provides network technical support.

Although the doctor on the Aetna insurance company visits is growing steadily, Marchetti also pointed out that at present there are only 1% of the provider to participate in their company's network of health care access project.

"This is an emerging technology, of course, need to be a lengthy process in order to be accepted by the public, but in recent years dawn I saw," he said, "with a lot of interest, began to ask a doctor online diagnosis.

Large patient groups also are forcing medical services provider for the application of this technology as soon as possible.

Based on the 2009 survey, Manhattan Institute estimated about diagnosis and treatment of patients with 80,000,000 online is interested in participating in the investigation of a United States adult 8600.

However, this demand is likely to be overwhelmed so economic distress of private practitioners, mainly because of: while recognizing the value of e-patient use, most insurance companies still do not line-related pay.

Medical insurance is. In this way, E-mail exchanges, private doctors and free to assume a responsibility, not to mention increased patient visits daily, the New England Journal of medicine "in a recent report says

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