Not really, in UK Babylon is very popular, many private insurance providers provide access to this consultation, this is first line of treatment , you can speak to a real Doctor on Video call and discuss all your symptoms and then they send prescription (if needed) electronically to your choice of medical store near by. This is quite popular in UK. Even people who doesn’t have private health insurance can also use this virtual GP with nominal charge (very nominal ) .
I beg to differ here, there are many private diagnostics center all over India , it takes in excess of 5CR to setup a CT scan center , they charge 7k per CT scan in these centers , and most of these devices are leased where the supplier makes money on consumables.
The things we discussed about maintaining records digitally etc… and allow the patients to track their own results and compare with the past is not a very difficult thing. I am sure there must be some of these available already in India, my search is more on which player is thinking about seriously to offer such tools to the patient .
I think there is some initiative from government on national health care policy etc… .if that is going to focus on standard framework, where each citizen health record should be maintained in digital format then we can expect all these offerings very soon by all the players in the industry
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