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E-Care: Doctor Visits by Broadband?

By admin on Apr 27, 2010 in Care

E-care will be a new system where more doctor visits will be electronic via broadband. It is a totally new concept of delivering health care.

Here’s how it works.

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Your doctor will be able to monitor your condition in real time through monitoring devices, video chats and phone health checks. Medication will also be delivered by devices or sensors. This will save you countless office visits and will cut down on the staff’s work processing patients in the office.

If you are not taking your medication or your meds need changing, your doctor will be able to fix the problem immediately. This will also cut down waiting time at the pharmacy.

Is e-care practical? Yes.

Those of us who are caregivers know only too well the frustration of playing phone tag with receptionists, trying to set up appointments when the doctor will actually be there, and the gargantuan efforts it takes to actually get elderly people to the doctor’s office. ( I may have left out parking and wheelchair management.)

This new system cuts down on those visits and will replace an antiquted process riddled with errors. That’s because you will be dealing more directly with your doctor and health care professional. You will no longer find yourself having to explain your chronic condition to new doctors in the ER who don’t know you or can’t get to your records. That’s a major improvement.

Will the government mis-use of actually abuse e-care?

That really depends upon a vigilant people. Freedom can often be abused and this new way of receiving medical care releases many of us from the drudgery and ineffectiveness of the old system. However, we must be careful to monitor it as closely as it will be monitoring us. But the implications of this smooth innovation for the care of the elderly and chronically ill will certainly be a blessing.