The estimate that professionals, medical centers, and mutual medical societies, before the current health crisis, were able to adapt their platforms and staff to the new dynamics of telemedicine: around 70% of scheduled medical visits could be carried out by telematics. The physical visit is considered unnecessary.

Professionals such as family doctors or internists and specialties such as psychiatry or psychology make greater use of telemedicine. According to forecasts from various specialist consultants, the telemedicine industry was expected to grow by an average of 27% in the United States alone over the next five years, before the crisis of the current coronavirus broke out.

What is telemedicine?

Telemedicine is the use of information technologies to diagnose, monitor, and treat patients remotely. In detail, telemedicine is the provision of health services, where distance is a critical factor, by health professionals through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for the exchange of valid information for the diagnosis, treatment, disease prevention, research, evaluation and continuing training of health professionals.

Telemedicine seeks a patient’s health by allowing interactive communication in real-time between the patient and the doctor or healthcare professional at a distance. This electronic communication involves the use of interactive telecommunications equipment that includes at least audio and video equipment.

Virtual Medicine has many benefits.

1. Cost Efficient: As a provider, you can increase the capacity to see patients. As a patient, you save time sitting in a waiting room.
2. Reduce the appointment cancelation ratio: There is significantly less risk of cancellation because the patient and the health provider can use almost any technological device, only needing a single internet connection.
3. Increase engagement with your patients: Being able to check in with the patients with more frequency increases communications and satisfaction with the service.
4. Slow the risk of spreading infections: Using virtual care as an option decreases the number of sick patients sitting together in a waiting room. Increase the capacity to attend to more patients: Reducing the cancellations ratio and increasing the attention time allow providers to schedule more appointments.

The delivery of health care services at a distance using NextPointe’s technology has never been easier. You can use your PC, Mac, Smartphone, or iPhone to provide your patients with the latest communication technology.

And the good news for you, it is affordable and easy to use. Your patients don’t need to install complicated tools.

Expand your services using NextPointe Telemedicine

With the NextPointe Telemedicine solution, your patients will have access to your benefit by simply clicking a URL, website link, QR Code, or mobile application to start the interaction.

Telemedicine is, therefore, a key instrument for making healthcare more sustainable and improving people’s health: cost savings and greater efficiency in healthcare, in addition to significantly enhancing health provision in regions considered inaccessible or difficult to access health care.

That’s why in NextPointe, you can connect with your patients in three easy steps:

1. Send the link connection.
2. Allow the use of the camera and microphone on your favorite browser.
3. Start the video session.

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