“Hardships of corona and subsequent lockdown made necessary medical checkups and consultations difficult for Indian patients. MedicoExperts opens its telemedicine platform to people of India for much-needed healthcare delivery services during the pandemic.”
COVID-19 pandemic has crippled the entire world and continue to burden the exiting healthcare system. The outbreak of coronavirus has forced India to announce 21-days lockdown period to contain its community spread. Though a necessary move by the government to keep its people indoor while making arrangements for doorstep delivery of essential services, it’s also taking a toll on regular patient visits and doctor-patient consultation for other regular diseases.
Acknowledging the need of healthcare delivery during pandemic, MedicoExperts has extended its 24*7 telemedicine services to patients in India, which was offered to only international patients until now.
The leading healthcare platform will provide telemedicine services in collaboration with leading medical practitioners, clinicians and hospitals to domestic clients.
Telemedicine refers to delivery of healthcare services through virtual means by using communication and information technologies to share authentic information on treatment, diagnosis and consultation.
Benefits of Telemedicine
• Telemedicine offers quick access to right kind of medical intervention and services. Considering the large population of India, even in normal conditions, telemedicine is an appropriate tool to deliver healthcare services due to limited medical resources and accessibility to care.
• Consultation over telemedicine platforms help rural population save significant amount of time and money in travelling to hospitals and clinics. In addition, the inconvenience to caregivers and family also reduced by using video consultation.
• Telemedicine specifically play a crucial role in case of patients that do not require being physically present for regular monitoring or routine check-ups. It may also decrease the patient burden on secondary hospitals.
• Being a technology-enabled platforms record maintaining is easy with telemedicine, and doctor can access patient history for diagnosis and treatment. Besides, medical documentation also helps patients in processing any legal claims.
• During a contagious disease outbreak, like coronavirus, telemedicine consultations also ensure safety of both the patient and healthcare staff.
In today’s digital world, several advanced technology-based platforms can be used to deliver telemedicine services for improved medication and disease management. Health workers may escape avoidable and unnecessary exposure to infected people and vice versa through remote screening of the patients. Moreover, telemedicine services also allow healthcare institutions to make more workforces available to deal with the pandemic or critical situations. Basically, telemedicine applications can be categorized into four types on the basis of purpose of consultation; mode of telecommunication; interaction between patient and the medical practitioner; and timing of exchange of information.
Telemedicine via MedicoExperts
At present, healthcare platforms with efficient telemedicine platforms like MedicoExperts are better equipped to offer adequate healthcare delivery to patient during COVID-19 pandemic. MedicoExperts and its associated healthcare institutions, doctors and clinicians follow the standard telemedicine guidelines issued by the Medical Council of India. These guidelines help a medical practitioner to provide safe medical care based on the patient needs, available means, and updated information.
People may access MedicoExperts website through their computer or Smartphone for video consultation. Though, COVID-19 infection can only be determined through test only, under WHO guidelines and recommended diagnosis methods, but a doctor may advise for the test after consultation. Video consultation also avoids doctor-patient physical contact and subsequent viral infection. Patient can also request for confidential and secure video consultation for real-time diagnosis and treatment. Our telemedicine services follow all standard protocols for doctor-patient confidentiality. The service offered is safe and secure, bearing in mind the patient-doctor confidentiality protocol.
If you are seeking consultation for flu-like symptoms as well as suspected coronavirus or any other health-related issue then please consult certified doctors through telemedicine on MedicoExperts website. Kindly visit https://consult.medicoexperts.com/consult and follow these three easy steps:
1. Select the specialty/ condition you are seeking consultation for
2. Choose the best doctor from the list of esteemed doctors empaneled with MedicoExperts
3. Book your appointment and start online consultation