VIRTUAL APPROACH TO HEALTH

They say “health is wealth” and what if you earn this wealth sitting at your home?

The Internet has become a part of everyone’s life these days in one or the other way. Right from picking clothes of your choice to finding vegetables for your kitchen, everything is now available with just one click. All you need is AWARENESS.

Now, when it comes to health you cannot compare with buying groceries for your home. It needs a lot of care and attention. You need a confirmation from your own self to go ahead and also ensure if you are moving in the right direction. And for this, you also need to know that getting online doctor advice in India as well as other countries can be as safe as buying groceries. Yes, I know it might be surprising but it is true. Getting online medical help is nowadays gaining a wide acceptance among users. Sitting at their respective places, people can discuss their health problems either with the patients having a similar condition as well as taking a confidential consultation with the doctor of their choice online. And the fact is that patients have found this method of consultation very convenient and user-friendly. Now, you do not have to worry about getting prior appointments, travel long distances, pay hotel bills for longer stays and wait in long queues to get treatment from the best doctor. All you have to do is navigate the website, choose a doctor, explain your medical condition and upload your reports online (which is totally confidential). Now, what comes next?

Second opinion: Need of The Hour

Imagine a situation when you are buying yourself some expensive dress. Would you not take a second a second opinion before investing your money in that cloth piece? Of course yes! When it comes to personal grooming, we are always wanting an expert advice. So what happens to us when it is about our health or a seriously diagnosed condition or an operating procedure? Health always comes first and hence taking a second opinion in regards to your healthcare should always be your topmost priority.

There are times when a patient is misdiagnosed or given a treatment and advised surgery which is actually not required. Research says that mandatory second opinion leads to 20% drop in avoidable surgery. This is a figure that cannot be left unseen.  Especially in this era of internet, it has become very easy to consult doctors. You can have access to world-class facilities sitting at your desk. There are various healthcare organizations that are nowadays providing consultation from online top doctors such as  Dr. Harsha Hegde and have proved a boon to the medical field. Free from all the hassle of traveling as well as long waiting time, the doctors and patients can now interact with each other sitting in their respective places. Another add on these days is health tools which are being provided free of cost to the patients online. These free health tools are gaining wide acceptance and have interested a lot of patients. Right from measuring your BMI to total body water requirement and various other parameters, these tools help us to know more about what we are and where do we need to go. A person who drinks less amount of water can actually help a lot with the total body water requirement. This tool will help you to know the exact amount of water your body needs and you can compare it with where you currently are.

With the growing burden of diseases in India and increased healthcare cost, the need for the hour calls for a second opinion. Remember the procedure that you have been advised for may not always be medically necessary. So why take a step further when a second opinion may save you.

A small effort gave a world of relief to a cancer patient

Every year my cousin from Australia visits home during the December holidays for more than a month. While most of time is spent sleeping, traveling, eating, getting hooked to Indian TV series and being horrified to how we drive on our roads, this year he is trying to do something useful.

His mother, a cancer survivor has been the subject of his attention. While she was diagnosed with breast cancer last year and successfully went through surgery and chemotherapy, he always regrets not to having been around. So he sat down last week and began sorting all her medical reports and doctor prescriptions to feel the gravity of the horror his mother had been through. It took him a day to arrange all the papers into one file and a couple of hours to sort them in order. Then he took some time off to party.

A Steady Control On Medical Records Improves Healthcare

Until recently, health records of every patient was managed by their hospitals or the doctors. The patients have been trained to be at the mercy of their health providers to own, decipher, and act on the recorded matter of their health record. Off course, the onus of self-managing their health records too has never been quite actively been taken up by individuals.

With the advent of technology, the tide is clearly turning towards the ease of delivery while actually accepting hands on experience into new bastions. This comfort and simplicity that technology beings into the functionality can also be applied to the effort of building a personal health record system that ensures easy accessibility to these files at any time one may so require while doing so from any geography. This mobility in access to the records is ensured by the concept of scanning/ capturing an image file of your health literature and storing them on a secure cloud data space. Medical Second Opinion, a premier second medical opinion generating portal gives this service free of cost to its account holders.