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Wednesday, 17 June 2015

Why Not Take a Second Opinion When It Is Just a Click Away

As we know, a health assured future is always a better future. Hence, the need of the hour calls for democratization of healthcare. As the nation is progressing and the population is increasing, the healthcare burden on an individual is increasing too. Certain situations arise when the person is diagnosed with some serious ailment and is asked to undergo a surgical treatment for it .Let us take the best example where a person is asked to undergo Liver Transplantation procedure. The Liver Transplantation treatment in India costs around Rs.12 Lac to Rs.30 Lac and it further depends on Hospital, Surgeon and many other variables.

Though we would say that the person is insured but we do not pay attention to the exact amount of insurance money he will be getting. It can still get him to pay out of pocket expenses. And certainly, in some scenarios there is actually no need for that costly surgery but since no second opinion is taken, it may lead to poor economic circumstances. Taking a second opinion about health has never harmed anybody. And if this is an online second opinion facility, it is a silver spoon in mouth.

With advancements in technology, the world is rapidly grooming itself into an E-commerce world. And it goes to the best when you get an online medical consultation regarding your health condition.You do not need to travel anymore when you can get online doctor advice from a renowned doctor practicing in another city. It is a platform that connects the patients with the doctors from all over the world thereby promising effective and efficient healthcare. It also reduces the health related costs to some extent. One of the cost saving methods can be unnecessary diagnostic and therapeutic interventions that a person needs to get done. It also helps to improve the quality of health by providing an easy access to a wide panel of doctors and compare the healthcare facilities provided to them. With personalized cloud space technology available, online medical records in India is gaining a wide popularity.  It stores all your medical history and reports and gives you an easy access to them from any part of the world. Add on is, it is completely confidential and highly secured.

So break the cage of geographical boundaries around you and seek second opinion about your health related issues from the doctors across the world. Make a difference and stand out of the crowd. Taking charge of your own health is the best gift you can give to your body

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Health tools - a fun way to know your body

Did you know you can calculate the total volume of blood in your body? Or how much water you require. Health tools such as these and about ten more have been clubbed together with online Top Indian doctors help and online health record management. This brings together for the user a comprehensive and easy way to keep abreast on their health care and anytime access to the best doctors of the country using web doctors’ aggregator Medical Second Opinion (MSO).

In times when all functionalities of life are being supported by technology based apps and software, health should not take a back seat. Medical Second Opinion that brings all the above mentioned services to a common man’s home is working on empowering patients with the idea of second opinion.

Tuesday, 3 February 2015

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.

Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Second Opinion Offers An Aggregation Of The Top Doctors On One Platform

The self-help groups and programmes would be buzzing with ideas new and old that one should take up this New Year to be able to look at world differently and improve your quality of life in 2015. But how many of them would have suggested ways to keep you healthy and this time, curative healthy.

The year gone by highlighted the importance of right to knowledge and awareness about issues that matter to us. The buzzword being Second Opinion which is extremely important as a practice to end the monopoly of one set of expertise on your body with another judgment that may or may not vary depending on their own knowledge, diagnostic perspective and medical tools for measurement/ analysis.
 
The online availability enables live doctors advice among other useful services such as Discount Health cards. Technology has been utilising its power to reach out to a large number of people at once and getting connected irrespective of the geographical barriers existing. Medical Second Opinion offers an aggregation of the top doctors on one platform who consult people that have already been diagnosed for a surgery or are undergoing any investigation with a second opinion.

Friday, 26 December 2014

Patient First Approach To Healthcare

Healthcare until now has largely been a doctor centric approach. Patients have been instructed on to what to do about their health concerns. What medicines to take, what diet plan to follow, which is the best doctors for them, whether they should go in for a surgery or not or which course of investigation best suits them. The point has been that patients are meant to follow what the doctor says without challenging them with self-health awareness or seeking an opinion from another provider.

As a result, we have witnessed an unquestioned rise in the prices of medical care and the gap in the distribution of quality healthcare.  Despite varied attempts at finding solutions to these problems, a doctor to patient model of information has been the understood norm. But with the rising popularity of e-health, the access to healthcare and medical knowledge has been on the rise like never before. Not only can one read and be better informed about a medical condition by themselves with the use of technology, information on investigations, procedures practiced around, other providers available and the infrastructure equipped with them upgrades the position of a patient from a sick, panic stricken individual to an empowered individual who can not only better inform a new provider with his medical problem but also seek more opinions using online medical consultations or online doctor consultation. With live doctors advice coming in, the answers are quick and easy to get. This is being enabled by e-platforms like Medical Second Opinion (MSO), which have the top doctors on their panel giving out consultations online within 24 hours.

Tuesday, 9 December 2014

Making Sense Of A Second Opinion In Your Medical Cases

So many people are falling sick for various reasons. The number of incidence of chronic diseases is increasing and the deteriorating air quality is making the citizens prone to poor health and some form of illness or the other.

In such a scenario, the cost of a visit to the hospital is massive from a single consultation visit to carrying out complicated medical procedures. Often, one is left wondering if this large amount is even justified or not but for the sake of good health the feeling is rendered helpless. At other time which in most cases is the usual behaviour, patients are too afraid or ignorant to even seek a second opinion. They feel it disrespectful to the treating doctor or may simply be afraid to not annoy someone who has their health under his control.

Saturday, 29 November 2014

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.