If one year ago it was completely impossible to obtain professional medical attention from a form that would not be strictly prescriptive, the advances in digitization have always led to a loss of opportunities in this camp. Although in many other sectors, the impetus of the pandemic and the help of patients, the impossibility of staying in health centers, he provoked a stall in distancing himself. Many processes require constant physical contact, as part of the consultations, which can be done via video message including mediation that allows instantaneous access to the opinion of a healthcare provider, can be done in person at the health center.
“The windows of the attention to distance are clear. Neither patients nor professionals have to move. At the moment like this, with the help of a medical and private medicine, it is idonious. If the virus is in any situation it is logical to think that in the clinic can be due to the trajectory of patients. For telemedicine, the virus has a level of spectacular impulse, ”said Carlos Falcato, Salud On Net’s delegate and founder, a pioneering initiative that works as an online marketplace in which individual sanitary services are run on a regular basis. what is needed.
The learner states that attention to distance is especially beneficial for patient profiles. “For patients with chronic problems the video consultant has a special cure because, for example, he was allowed to have a cardiologist or dermatologist order photos to make a diagnosis. The experience has been as good as repeated by users. Including when you can go to the doctor, it seems like a real alternative ”.
Nel González, President of the Confederation of Spanish Mental Health, also recognizes the potential that this modality has in the world of psychological attention. “Having approved the technology, for example, in cases of suicide, the person who assigns to the patient has the possibility of being accessible to support when the need arises, but he does not have to change the person’s person,” he advised.
And it is for the expert the attention to distance has lagoons, the principal of it, the lack of resources. “It is very important to have our telemedicine filled with sufficient resources. Read about the pandemic with an absolute surge of human and economic resources. In European countries there are 18 psychologists for every 100,000 inhabitants and in Spain we have 4 ”. One of the problems presented is the quality of communication. “You, as a communication professional, know perfectly well what we are talking about, although we have many guapos and photogenics, we put a camera on it. Imagine that you are in the middle of a room. Judge “.
New forms of access
In addition, in the manner of waiting, the digitalisation of health has impacted the time to open new forms of access to services. This is the case of Salud On Net. The platform works as a private car insurer at health centers, with those who negotiate a reduced price of access to treatment, public car, allows payment by us. “The user enters the web page and selects the medical file of interest; can be searched for price and valuation of other people. If you buy the service, you pay with a card or other forms and generate a code of use that is presented in the clinic “, Falcato details.
According to the founder, the platform works well in ecosystems with a private health development. Antes of the pandemic, planning its expansion into Latin America; the virus obliges to conjure up the plans, but it must be agreed that it will be legally bound to the zone: completely democratic for all those bolsillos ”.
The platform is available in all of Spain, but does not have the same level of compliance in all of the debt areas, mainly, as the level of technological support is at the same level in all countries. “It is not the same Madrid, but the people are accostumbrada to use the smartphone for everything, if you are in Avila or Toledo or rural areas. This is a spectacular alternative to rural areas, but there is one more cultural problem than connectivity ”.
Falcato reveals that its company plans to travel to Mexico. “Our plants were planted in Mexico. It’s a very interesting country, because it does require a large inversion because it is very large. We thought of empezating in a specific site. As we want to do in the United States, we do not do it on a global level, we do not know it. Mexico is in the spotlight and the natural series will empezar in the DF ”, adelanta.
From reactivity to proactivity
Monitoring
By means of a monthly subscription service of 4.99 euros, Salud On Net has the possibility of unlimited medical video consultations. The platform maintains a series of patient data that allow physicians to assess personalized form in each case. “The state of good health is not, in general, good health or poor health, it tends to maintain the best possible health ever and when one has high habits that we all know. Control stress, sleep deprivation, nutrition and sedentary life. Through our platform, we maintain this information to diagnose our habits and propose the best solutions, ”says Carlos Falcato, CEO.
En boga
Regarding this type of initiative, there is now a temporary form of the pandemic or, on the contrary, a step that will take place, the delegate councilor believes that in favor of telemedicine is a very important factor: prueban, suelen tender a repetir ”.