When people talk about virtual visits in Healthcare, it looks like beyond realty. While reading about second life, I come across virtual Health visits, it sounded great as both IBM and Cisco (Palomar Pomerado Hospital) are opening Virtual Hospitals on second life. But I couldn’t agree for virtual visits between patients and physicians in Second life or in other virtual world. Web conference between two professionals to treat a patient has different outcome than between patient and physician.
I believe, in future virtual visits can be extensively used to create awareness in many healthcare issues where patients are uncomfortable in expressing openly in their physical presence. Virtual visits can provide valuable input in areas of STIs (sexually transmitted infections) healthy relationship, family planning, sexual health etc. through patient –physician or by conducting seminars.
In my previous blogs, I mainly emphasized on, how Information Communication Technology has changed the traditional Healthcare industry and brought care to the doors of low resourceful areas. If you are curious to know more about virtual visits, go through the following links, which are more insighful.
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/03/health_care_of_the_future.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/health/07chen.html
http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/about/pressrelease.aspx?id=1128
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDdiEbxgcWA
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