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When receiving an unusual or life-threatening diagnosis, patients seek second opinions from medical specialists, to explore options, find answers and, often, simply want peace of mind. Online second opinion programs can give patients access to the highest quality care without having to travel or wait weeks for an appointment with a specialist. A specialist provides an opinion on a patient’s diagnosis or treatment plan, which the patient can then review with their local physician. Remote consultations are also helping to improve patient care and ongoing education of local healthcare workers in remote areas of the world.
Partners Online Specialty Consultations (POSC) is a web-based application that enables consumers and their physicians to have “anytime, anywhere” access to the knowledge base of the 4000+ specialists located at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Partners/Dana Farber Cancer Care.
This program is aimed at bringing sustainable and quality health care to underserved populations in Cambodia.
The interactive teledermatology practice at Nantucket Cottage Hospital on Nantucket Island and the ambulatory clinics at Massachusetts General Hospital provide patients on Nantucket Island with access to Harvard-affiliated dermatologists via interactive video conferencing.
Connected Pediatric Critical Care is a program that enables on-call attending physicians in the Pediatric Critical Care Unit (PICU) at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children (MGHfC) to examine patients and communicate directly with the PICU staff, when the on-call attending physicians are at home during the overnight or weekends.
This pilot project has demonstrated that telemedicine can have a positive impact on the public health of very remote communities in the developing world.
The success of the pilot telemedicine programme confirms the value of email support for non-physician health-care workers in the developing world.
The authors concluded that store-and-forward e-mail consultative support for mobile nonphysician health care workers is a feasible model for delivering care in the developing world.
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