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Online Patient Care Benefits

Your insurance company will reimburse you or your doctor for online consultation, if you are an established patient, parent or guardian and the visit does not originate from services provided within the previous 7 days. (check with your doctor on how to file a claim with your insurance company)

** Online Vital Sign Medical Device is sold separately for $399

Online Patient Care

Online Patient Care is a consumer-driven phenomenon that is transforming the delivery of healthcare for patients and doctors. Research shows that patients want to consult with their doctor using the same tools they use to communicate with family and friends.

  • Aetna, Cigna and other insurers have started to reimburse physicians for online consultations under the CPT code 99444.

  • Patients have to be registered patients with their Doctors to seek Online Patient care and Doctors have to be members of DrisOnline.com to provide Online Patient Care.

  • DrisOnline.com’s Online-Patient-Portal allows patients to receive patient care online, in which Patient fills out a questionnaire describing their symptoms, video records a message regarding their condition, upload vital sign information and sends it to the doctor in the form of an alert, which then gets embedded into the patients Electronic Medical Record as an acknowledgement. The doctor reviews the video message, studies the symptom questionnaire, and looks up the patients personal health record online before deciding on whether or not to text the patient, video message the patient online or schedule the patient for an office visit. If the doctor decides to consult online and clicks on the message button, patients EMR will automatically open and the doctor will now have before him: (a) patients personal health record, which contains patients personal, family, social and clinical history, (b) reasons for needing an online consultation, (c) symptom questionnaire, providing in detail the condition of the patient, (d) a personal video message discussing their symptoms , and (e) vital sign clinical data – all in a matter of seconds.

  • This Online-Patient-Portal resides in your doctor’s website. It is accessible to all, at all times and benefits all stakeholders: patients, payers, employers, doctors and government.

Patient’s benefits:

    Sharing of clinical information by healthcare providers improves medical decision-making, reduces medical errors, increases the quality of care, and reduces the cost of care by eliminating redundant testing, which in the long-run results in lower premiums. Moreover, studies have found that patients with strong patient-physician relationship, which revolves around the productive and efficient exchange of information “live well” even with their chronic condition.

Payer’s and Employer’s benefits:

Today’s rising cost of health insurance is directly attributable to the loss in productivity, medical errors and unnecessary and repetitive diagnostic testing. Thus, as the cost and safety of the patient improves, the overall quality of life of patients will improve, thereby making it easier for employers to negotiate lower rates with their insurance carriers, and pass those savings in lower premiums for their employees.

Doctors benefits:

It is the next generation solution for doctors to enhance patient revenues, reduce operating costs, and improve the quality of patient care by extending their practice beyond eight hours a day, five days/week - through the Internet. Doctors will get reimbursed when “evaluating and managing patient encounters” with an established patient via a secure communication network. All of which keeps the doctors from making medical errors, gives them a faster patient throughput, helps them sort patients during a drug recall, and improves the healthcare of a patient, who are more inclined to ask for help than self-medicate. More importantly, it improves physician-patient relationship.

 
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