Dipak Nandi, M.D: Telemedicine Helping in Curbing The Spread of The Contiguous Virus

Though the telemedicine platform in the healthcare industry was long present, the idea of online care and locating medical specialists who felt convinced about conducting their work in a remote setting was not much appreciated.

However, today due to the pandemic hit of the corona virus crisis has made the same telemedicine platform to be the most appreciated and encouraged platform for healthcare service solution; especially when social distancing has forced many healthcare practices to close their door for safety reasons and in restraining the virus. Today more than half of the patients and healthcare providers stated an increased willingness in patients and physicians to try the telemedicine platform has been observed.

Seeing the willingness as well as the advantages that telemedicine platform has, the federal government in fact, for the first time has empowered doctors to use more of this telemedicine platform in treating the Medicare patients. Relaxing many telemedicine stringent regulation by government and even private insurers waiving copays to encourage the platform, says a lot about the telemedicine platform.

Managing several challenges faced by the healthcare systems in this global crisis of infectious disease outbreaks, the telemedicine platforms are ideal for addressing the needs of chronic ailing patients, low-acuity patients and mentally ailing patients too.

Preventing patients from been expose and overcrowded in the emergency departments, urgent care clinics, and primary care clinics, the telemedicine platform not only ensured reassurance but also complete guidance to the needed patients for better health management.

Addressing the ongoing healthcare needs of both physically and mentally ailing patients, the telemedicine platform today has played a major role in restricting the spread of the contiguous virus, observed Dipak Nandi, M.D, while treating patients during the corona virus pandemic crisis.