Save time for the doctor and better cover medical deserts. These are the objectives of Doctolib’s teleconsultation platform between doctors and patients. Launched on January 13, this new service replaces the traditional office consultation or home visit. The site for making medical appointments online would already free, according to its figures, 70,000 doctors from secretarial tasks and reduce appointments not honored by patients.
Teleconsultation is now available on Doctolib!
➡️ https://t.co/Ktk4mOHizg– Doctolib (@doctolib) January 13, 2019
Professionals have a secure video system with this platform. They can consult the history and medical records of patients, talk to them, obtain electronic payment or send the prescribed prescription. Patients, for their part, must be equipped with a smartphone and Internet access. For patients for whom this is not the case, a nurse or pharmacist can assist them during the online consultation.
Reimbursed online consultations
Since September 2018, these teleconsultations have been reimbursed by Social Security in the same way as physical appointments. The government thus provides for 500,000 of these acts in 2019, one million in 2020 and 1.3 million in 2021. But this reimbursement is only possible when the practitioner already knows his patient, and the latter does not have an attending physician. or that his attending physician is not available.
The cost of online consultations nevertheless remains the same as for a classic appointment, at 25 euros for a general practitioner and 30 euros for a specialist. “For the moment, we are installing this service more for general practitioners and more in Île-de-France, but we will cover the whole of France” and specialists “Within a few months”, specifies to theAFP taken back by Le Figaro Julien Méraud, Director of Strategy at Doctolib. Doctors will be billed at 79 euros per month for the platform.
In March, the National Health Insurance Fund (CNAM) must make an initial assessment of the supervision of teleconsultation, put in place since last year. For the moment, doctors remain reluctant and denounce its time-consuming side. According to Mickaël Chaleuil, president of the association “Agir pour la télémédecine” also questioned by theAFP, only 30 to 40% of professionals are in favor of its use.
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