Rome, 23 March (beraking latest news Salute) – A little over two months after its launch, there are over 300 patients, many with a chronic disease and elderly people with various comorbidities, and over 500 white coats, including general practitioners and specialists in particular cardiologists, neurologists and pulmonologists who use ‘My Doctor on the Net’, an App that allows a simple and fast ‘connection’ between patient treating physicians, facilitates communication via chat, telephone and video call, and allows to share data on the progress of health collected by the patient. Features, those of ‘My Doctor on the Net’, which today have been expanded and enriched.
The aim of the App – recalls a note – is to make available to general practitioners and specialists an easy-to-use tool in order to integrate telemedicine into clinical practice, and to involve patients and caregivers in collaborating personally with the doctor. The project was carried out with the non-conditioning contribution of Lusofarmaco. The functions of ‘My Doctor on the Net’ are numerous: doctor-patient communication through the messaging system and television, the diary of signs / symptoms and events, self-monitoring of the patient’s condition, in addition to the immediate availability of data. of contact, of the anamnestic picture, of the therapeutic prescriptions.
Today – reports the note – they have been expanded and enriched with the possibility of sending attachments to the messages of the chat with the patient, in the form of pdf and images; viewing by the physician of the results of self-monitoring tests performed by the patient; teleconsultation, which allows the doctor to get in touch, even via video call, with colleagues who follow the same patient; the state of health, which allows the doctor to set alarm thresholds for any vital parameter that he wants to keep under control and to receive the related alerts when the values entered by the patient are out of range. In addition, over 15 training webinars have been organized to date to help doctors make the best use of the App.
“The online platforms offer, for the most part, telemedicine services aimed mainly at the professional needs of the doctor (acquisition of new patients, management of the practice, secretariat, etc.)”, explains Umberto Amato, medical director of Med Stage.
“We, on the other hand, have focused on the most effective way to maintain contact between the patient and the treating doctor, even at a distance, with a simple App. The doctor – he explains – informs the patient of the possibility and the patient downloads the App, finds his doctor in the list of registered doctors and it is he who requests to connect to share his clinical data. This is because our approach focuses on the patient, who has the possibility and the duty to be more and more active and participatory than to your health “. The App can be downloaded for free from the App Store and Google Play. Contains two separate sections, doctor and patient.