One of the most common reasons for people to go online is to search for health information. 55% of those with Internet access have used the Web to get health or medical information – reference survey by Pew Internet Survey. Said so the present form of web information is limited to learn about diseases, obtain information about health care providers etc. There are very few tools available online to help individual with specific to his current condition to interact with doctor. Â
But now the prospect of healthcare IT is transforming quickly. Recently Microsoft launched healthvault.com which allows people of US to store their medical data and share with their doctor. Googlehealth is fast moving in field recently tested its application with the Cleveland clinic. Â
www.ehealthopinion.com is our effort to take healthcare IT to masses. eHealthopinion is the platform to connect (like ebay for product) patient; referring doctor and expert doctor. Using our application patient can able to prepare his case profile and send it to doctor for second opinion, line of treatment or follow up. Patient’s file consist medical data like ECG, x-ray, history, lab report etc. The application consist step by step information and tools to acquire patient’s data scientifically. Patient selects doctor and sends data to him. Doctor view and interpret patient’s data and write and send his opinion / prescription back to patient. Â
eHealthopinion is launched on 24th July 2007. 175 doctors from 28 courtiers and 250 patients are registered with us till date. At present the service for patient is completely free of cost. Â
Anticipating feedback. Thanks. Â
Devendra Patel
- Introducing eHealthopinion.com - May 6, 2008
Dear Sir,
Healthscribes.com has launched Health Online Services. The services include:
1. Health Forums (Free Service): People can post question in open forums. Doctors/Health Experts can answer their questions and others can post comments and share their experiences, ratings and so on.
2. Email Consultations (Paid Service): The questions will be answered by Doctors/Health Experts within 12 hours.
3. Live -Chat (Paid Service): People can find Doctors/Health Experts Online and chat with them.
We thought that this may be a useful service for your visitors. We will be glad if you can link http://www.healthscribes.com/healthonline-24x7doctors/getConsultationHome in your web pages.
Please feel free to revert to us for any queries that you may have.
Regards
Vardhan K V
Santosh,
The legal implications are same as conventional method. Wrong diagnosis or treatment and its implication to patient doesn’t mean medical negligence every time. One need enough proof for his action. As example as a dr one must have logic to prove “why I choose x line of treatment”. That is what require to right in medical practice. The advantage here is that you have document proof to recall your decision any time in future. That may not be available in conventional method where use of documentation (manual or computarised) is little.
Regarding the legality of concept; can dr use other than conventional method (face to face) for consultation or treatment? The answer is Yes; they can use.
2nd, the legal implication are equal if the service is paid or free. It makes very little difference.
Devendra
What are the legal implications if the diagnosis is wrong and causes complications? Since some of you are charging or the service, they should be held accountable!
I saw both eHealthOpinion.com and HealthcareMagic.com . I would say that HealthcareMagic is far too superior as it provides instant access to doctos online.I can chat with a doctor. eHealthOpinion is good but it takes atleast 1 day to get answer by email.
I also see that HealthcareMagic’s technology is far too better. I have not seen website with such good effects using div pop-up except LinkedIn. Excellent experience on HealthcareMagic. A must try.
No wonder that it had more than 100,000 page views within a few weeks. Keep it up.
Congratulations on your success and launching this site. It’s more than a just a site, its great a facility for patience and their relatives. Few months back I looked for similar site or facility where I can get hold of Corneal Expert for my dad without traveling to another city, state or country. In nutshell it fulfills multiple purpose e.g. reduce travel, get expert opinion without seeing a doctor (as he already has seen the digital records of ECG, x-ray, pathological records). It also allows doctors to discuss the medical condition, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and more with or without presence of the patient.
I like the concept and I wish all the doctors with participate and hospitals will promote the idea of using this facility internally and externally.
Good luck and nice job, keep it up.