Telehealth
Defining Location Of Telehealth Services For Regulatory Purposes
As the online consultation concept grows within the healthcare industry, regulators are battling to keep up with appropriate guidelines. As is often the case with new treatment techniques or approaches, the practice out paces the regulation. Some agencies that police the quality and complaints of health services feel the need to limit the geographical reach…
Read MoreCreating Seamless Patient Flow In Digital Practice
To create an entire telehealth experience for your patients, you have most likely combined a number of tech systems together. From completing forms, to making a payment, from scheduling appointments to conducting a video call. It is important to ensure that the end-to-end experience is as frictionless as possible for both you and your patient.…
Read MoreThe Ultimate Guide For A Great Quality Telehealth Video Call
In a face-to-face clinic, you do a few things to prepare the room before a consultation. You clean your treatment couch, fold the towels, put the tape scraps in the rubbish and chew on a mint. So what about preparing for a telehealth video call? Although your stinky onion breath may no longer be…
Read MoreHow To Choose A Telehealth Video Platform
Are you getting started with digital consultations and wondering what telehealth video platform to use? Over the past 6 years running Online.Physio, I have trialed many different video platforms for patient appointments. As you can imagine, the technology is growing and changing rapidly, with new platforms hitting the market almost daily. Rather than naming…
Read MoreTelehealth Consultations – Is There Evidence That They Actually Work?
When I decided to develop Online Physio, I had already paid a hefty deposit to a website developer before I had a sudden thought: ‘Geez, I had better check if there is any evidence showing that telehealth actually works’. It was not my finest moment of planning. Fortunately for me, the resultant…
Read MoreHow We Conduct Online Physiotherapy Consultations
When I started doing online physiotherapy consultations in 2011, all I had was a simple website and a skype account. The way that I conduct online Physiotherapy consultations has changed a lot since then. I often get asked by other health professionals how I actually ‘do’ online Physiotherapy consultations, so I thought I would share…
Read MoreIs Telehealth Destroying the Physio Profession?
Last week i had a thought leader within the Physio profession present a controversial question for my thoughts: Is telehealth destroying the health profession? This was my response: I completely understand the hesitation that Physiotherapists feel when faced with the treat of digitised consultations, bereft from physical touch. I felt the same way when…
Read MoreHow to treat patients in your pyjamas – 5 ways health businesses can take their services online
There I was, in the midst of a bone chilling Melbourne winter, propped up in bed under some toasty blankets with my laptop on my knees. As I hit ‘send’ on a message for a patient that I was treating online, I couldn’t help but chuckle. I was, quite literally, treating a patient in my…
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