Your health in the palm of your hand!
Nowadays everything is accessible through smartphones. We shop online, work remotely, order food and even meet the love of our lives with a click of a button. However, when it comes to health care, we still have to go to the doctor office. It is time-consuming, online booking usually doesn’t work, and there is a lot of different problems we are facing.
Waiting time
In the USA, the patient on average waits 24 days to make an initial appointment with a physician, shows the research, made by Merritt Hawkins. Similarly, in the U.K. appointment waiting, times are expected to approach three weeks.
The research conducted for the UK Digital Health Report that was based on 61 million Google searches and a survey of 1013 adults found out that one out of five people decides to diagnose themselves online with search engines when feeling unwell or experiencing any symptoms. Eleven percent said that this was because they were unable to get a doctor’s appointment, while the other 10.8 percent said Google was the best option because their GP wasn’t available quickly enough.
What is there was an option to be checked by a specialist, that you choose through your smartphone? Patients will always need specialists, but do they have to be in the same room?
Medicohealth is the solution
With Medicohealth platform patients and specialists will be connected in the online world. You will not need to make an appointment and physically show at the doctor’s office anymore. You will sit down, take your phone, open the Medicohealth application and browse through the physicians available, registered on the Medicohealth platform, based on their ratings, prices, availability, and specialization. You will contact the physician and give him your consent to view your medical information anonymously through a secure, decentralized data repository. A physician will comment on it through Medicohealth application, and you will reward him with MH tokens that fuel the whole network.
Functions of the platform that you will be able to use:
• you will be able to make anonymous questions to physicians (and get the fast physician comments),
• you will be able to book physician appointments,
• you will have complementary health insurance,
• your data will be anonymously stored, and you will be the only one with a possibility to approve access to the physician that you chose,
• it will provide a secure and anonymous payment module,
• you will be able to check the physician identity/license validity.
With technology integrated into healthcare, it is just a matter of time when we will be able to get in contact with our physician through the application.
