There was an interesting article in the New York Times this weekend regarding telemedicine titled “The doctor will see you now. Please log on.” According to the article, the telemedicine business has been growing by almost 10% annually, and is now a half-billion dollar industry. One of the issues brought up by the article is [...]
Also tagged information lost, Texas Medical Board, video qualityIt’s surprising how few technical difficulties my patients have had with Skype, but there have been a few. With one exception, all the technical troubles any of my patients have encountered have been the very first time that they’ve set up Skype. Although I tell everyone to test it out before they try it for [...]
Also tagged skype, technical problemsI mentioned in my Getting started with Skype for patients post that I was going to go out on Black Friday to see if I could find a couple of inexpensive webcams that I could lend out for patients to try. I wanting to make sure that if a webcam never came back, I wouldn’t [...]
Also tagged inexpensive, skypeI haven’t done exhaustive testing yet, but I do have two webcams from Logitech, and both seem to do the job for telepsychiatry. The first of these is the Logitech Webcam Pro 9000 which retails for $76.99 at Amazon right now. I have this camera on my computer in my office. The video quality on [...]
Also tagged eye contact, logitech, skypeIt seems to me that the information conveyed on a video and audio link between a patient and me has to be more than the information conveyed on a telephone call. All the information comings through on a telephone call is present on a videocall like Skype provides, and I can’t think of any way [...]
Also tagged disadvantages, face-to-face, skype, standard of careI really didn’t plan to do telepsychiatry, it just happened. Sort of like committing a crime, I had the motive, the means, and the opportunity. I take care of a patient who can’t always get to her appointments, so I was already doing some work on the telephone with her. I really don’t like to [...]
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