Telemedicine is the next healthcare revolution in the modern world. Learn how to use it effectively to make your life even more comfortable and easy. The best thing to learn about it is to acknowledge when to use it. So, understanding which diseases can be treated with an online doctor appointment is the best since the main focus is online appointments.

Online doctor appointment making is a timely solution.

The covid-19 pandemic has changed the lives not only in Sri Lanka but also around the world. However, it affected many things and changed the day to lives of people. As a result, seeing a doctor, going to a hospital or a pharmacy for medicine, emergency room, or even a regular check-up may never feel the same again. People living in developed countries were almost using telemedicine platforms. The revolutionary thing is that countries unfamiliar with telemedicine had started to look for those platforms. As a result, telemedicine platforms were established in a country like Sri Lanka, but we feel like people aren’t still aware of using them correctly. So, you can be one of them too. That’s why reading this article will be helpful for you.

When to book a doctor online?

Generally, telemedicine involves the doctor and patient to help them to communicate. But, many innovative platforms have additional services for the ease of patients. If you have registered on such a platform, things can be different. However, we will explain using common platforms like a body without skin. 

Making an online doctor appointment will take a few simple steps in a user-friendly application. But, it’s beneficial for the times when you can’t physically contact a doctor. It is best if you could understand which time is the best to schedule an appointment online because diagnosing via telemedicine is not as exact as seeing a doctor physically. However, according to relevant tests and studies, telemedicine works best for very mild conditions, and he speculates that a video consultation can resolve about 80% of patient complaints.

Lifestyle Coaching

Telemedicine is the best option for someone who needs to quit smoking or lose weight. Since such a patient needs daily advice and attention apart from capsules and tablets, those needs can be satisfied easily and effectively via telemedicine. Why I told like that is when someone needs to see a doctor for daily advice, he has to spend travel costs and time. It is useless. So, it will be very effective if the patient can obtain weight loss advice while exercising or eating. Time-saving, money-saving, and even comfortable for both parties. The situation is quite the same for the smoking patient. He can have daily advice, relaxing chats, and more with the doctor. Those frequent touch points may enhance the quality of the service and reduce the waiting room or risking no-shows or cancellations.

Minor diseases

Actually, not every disease you have requires an in-person doctor’s visit. Virtual visits can help you with lower costs and time-saving in many minor cases. Also, it is safer than seeing a doctor.

Patients with a high possibility of getting affected by minor diseases can use telemedicine. There is convenient access there with fully ensured safety for minor care.

Some examples of those minor diseases are as follows.

• Allergies
• Headaches
• Sore throat
• Diarrhea and vomiting
• Sinus/ear infections
• Cold and flu
• Mild skin conditions(acne, eczema, psoriasis, impetigo, athlete’s foot.)
• Cough and the common cold
• Blocked nose

Chronic diseases

Telemedicine will revolutionize chronic disease management. The fairest proof for this statement is the ability to get immediate assistance via telemedicine in the emergence of heart disease. Making an online doctor appointment with the available doctor from anywhere on the island is almost possible with telemedicine. That will significantly help the old patients since moving from place to place can be harder for them.

Patients with chronic medical conditions often require multiple doctor’s office visits yearly. These are patients with regimented treatment plans that are frequently adjusted and must be closely monitored by an existing provider. Video-based follow-up appointments often include:

• Medication adjustments.
• Side effect monitoring.
• Lab/imaging results reviews.
• Overall treatment plan management for patients with chronic conditions.

Besides the above-mentioned list, clear medical records and analysis can be the most useful for chronic disease management. Those chronic diseases may include.

• Diabetes
• Oncologic co-morbidities
• Neurodegenerative diseases
• Obesity
• Hypertension
• Asthma / COPD
• Coronary artery disease
• Cardiac arrhythmia
• End-stage renal disease
• Hepatitis

Deedmed Lives offer endless benefits to manage the above conditions well and beyond. Also, we are improving our platform to a better level of telemedicine inside Sri Lanka. We care about rural patients who are lack literacy via user-friendly innovations. Our unique features may help Sri Lankan people uplift their healthcare requirements that many government and private sectors could not fix during the last years. We will always be with you!