A patient would pay her health-care provider directly for the telemedicine visit. VSee charges $9 per user per month for the document-sharing feature and also takes a usage fee from the participating doctor. We can also share their test results very easily, so we can read through it together and also interpret it together, and that really makes it a workable system, when we can be sure we're looking at the same thing." "We can easily send them the family tree that we're looking at and we can actually use an electronic pen to circle areas of the pedigree that we're focusing in on. That really is something that our patients really appreciate."Ī feature of VSee that Loranger and her colleagues especially like is the ability to share documents with the patient on the other end of the chat. Individuals are sometimes quite sick and going through treatment close to home, so really it allows us to save them a long car ride. Kate Loranger, a licensed genetic counselor at UCSF explains: "We're dealing with hereditary cancers in our clinic.
The genetic counseling department at the University of California, San Francisco, Medical Center was quick to hop on board this telemedicine trend. He estimates that half those would have been suitable for handling remotely, especially for things like follow-ups, discussion of lab results, psychiatric visits, and certain types of counseling. Not even VSee servers, or others, have the decryption key.Ĭhen says that last year in the United States, there were more than 900 million doctor visits. As far as privacy concerns, VSee uses end-to-end encryption. All they need to do is install an application on their computers or tablets. VSee has been able to make their service cost effective by eliminating the need for users to invest in an expensive server. We're able to take that big barrier and reduce it down to nothing," says VSee CEO Milton Chen. This is why you don't really see Telemedicine in people's homes. "Before, you had this big cost barrier for people who do telemedicine. It's also free to download and free for patients to use the base-level service. Enter VSee, a Silicon Valley-based company that's created the first iPad telehealth app that is FDA-registered and HIPAA-compliant. The onus is now on the technology service providers to ensure the video chat is 100 percent secure. Such chats are becoming more and more common as people see the convenience and value of telemedicine while realizing they don't have to compromise the quality of care, or their privacy. Here's a solution: telemedicine, or a video chat on a computer or tablet with a physician from the comfort of the family's home. The problem is that it's a hassle for the mother to load the baby and her toddler into the car to drive an hour each way for a quick 15-minute visit.
He's doing fine, but the doctor wants to do a follow-up visit to make sure he took the antibiotics well and is on the mend. Here's the scenario: a mom has a baby recovering from an ear infection.
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