Telemedicine or In-Person Consultations?

Moreover, telemedicine has played a major role in providing care in rural areas who live far from medical facilities.

Most of the large medical facilities or healthcare providers have their telemedicine platforms. In other cases, many providers use a publicly available platform such as Skype, Zoom, or FaceTime. All you need is to access your laptop, smartphone, or tablet and a good wifi connectivity. For a phone conversation, a simple cellphone or a landline will work.

Patients are generally required to use smartphones with good cameras so that your provider gets to see high-resolution photos where certain medical problems are to be analyzed clearly. For example, in the case of skin problems, your camera should provide photos so that your dermatologist can see your skin issues properly.

Besides, the online market is overflowing with apps and at-home tools that help you to measure your blood sugar, pulse rate, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation level. This will help you monitor your vitals before every virtual visit with your provider. 

Now, get's real!

A remote visit is not the right choice for every situation. For serious symptoms or conditions like severe chest pain or drug overdose, one will have to visit a medical facility or the emergency department. In the cases where the doctor needs to lay hands on you, virtual visits are certainly not recommended. For example, for patients suffering from diabetes-related neuropathy, the podiatrist needs to touch and feel the patient's feet.

Generally, in-person consultations are better for younger patients. Often kids require vaccinations or monitoring of growth and development which cannot be conducted virtually. On the contrary, telemedicine is increasingly being used for post-surgical follow-ups. It's a boon for elderly patients or patients with reduced mobility. And, in the case of mental health, it is the most popular tool since these consultations only require talking.

If you are planning a telehealth appointment, make sure to ask your treatment plan if it is covered or you'll have to pay out of your pocket. Many providers are also providing teleconsultations for free. You just have to venture on the internet. And, if you're not available to pay for the costly teleconsultation in your country, you can look for such options abroad. Some countries provide affordable teleconsultations and also treatment packages as per your medical need. One of them is India!

At IndiCure, we are fortunate to be part of the healthcare sector that people worldwide are at present the most in need of. Being the leader in the Medical Tourism Industry in India, we are affiliated with some of the best doctors that are now offering consultations through Telemedicine.

Ranging from the transmission of patient histories and digital photographs for diagnostic consultation to interactive patient physical examination and remote monitoring of physiologic data for disease management; IndiCure is offering a continuum of successful telemedicine services amid the COVID-19 crisis.

You can choose to share your medical reports for medical problems or pictures of the target areas for dental treatment, skin treatment and plastic surgery, and we shall send you a detailed treatment plan followed by a telephonic or a video consultation by our doctors in India. 

IndiCure is one of the largest and most renowned medical tourism companies in India offering medical treatment in association with the best surgeons and hospitals in India. You can write to us at info@indicure.com or call us at +91-9320036777 (India).