This article is a transcription of an episode of the RateFast podcast, which you can listen to by searching “RateFast” in iTunes or the iOS podcast store. If you’re a workers’ compensation provider, adjuster, or case manager check out RateFast Express: the service that writes your impairment reports for you! Patients spend a large amount of their visit at the doctor’s office not being seen by the doctor, but rather sitting in a waiting room or even trying to find a parking spot outside the office to begin with. Or maybe they planned an appointment weeks or even months in advance, Read More
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RateFast Podcast: Telemedicine in the Midst of the Coronavirus Pandemic
Dr. John Alchemy explains the importance of telemedicine in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Also, try the FREE RateFast CDC COVID-19 Risk Assessment Calculator at covidriskcalculator.net
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Even A Fire Cannot Stop Telemedicine
Telemedicine has proven itself useful when it to saving time, money, and distance traveled. Recently, RateFast’s own Dr. John Alchemy has unexpectedly employed this tool against another unforeseen challenge: natural disasters. Specifically, wildfires.
How Telemedicine Benefits Injured Workers
This is a post for medical providers, employers, and employees who are interested in understanding how telemedicine can improve workers’ compensation in California. When it comes to workers’ compensation, who benefits from telemedicine? The short answer: everybody. But the gains will be immediately apparent to the injured worker. First, let’s think about how an injured worker currently experiences the workers’ compensation process.
Telemedicine
Telemedicine is the delivery of medical care, including an actual discussion of medical history and a physical exam. Just like an office visit, in a telemedicine visit the doctor interviews the patient, gets a complete history, and then performs an exam. Recent advances in technology now allow providers to remotely measure blood pressure, oxygen saturation, cardiac and lung auscultation. They can even look at the tympanic membranes of the inner ear drum or take high resolution pictures of the skin without actually being in the same room as the patient. Try RateFast Express today!
What is Occupational Telemedicine?
Try RateFast Express today! Our sister website www.pr4report.com recently created a downloadable FAQ about telemedicine in workers’ compensation—or “Occupational Telemedicine.” If you’re in workers’ compensation and you’d like to learn more about how you can use telemedicine—online visits—to benefit your practice and patients, then just this might be worth reading. Click here to download a printable list of Frequently Asked Questions about telemedicine for medical providers in work-comp. A lot of RateFast members use telemedicine in conjunction with RateFast to great effect. Contact us for more information about how telemedicine can benefit your medical practice.
Occupational Telemedicine: Frequently Asked Questions
What is Occupational Telemedicine? Occupational Telemedicine is the new, efficient way to provide medical care for employees who are injured on the job. How does Occupational Telemedicine work? When an employee gets hurt at work, he or she has an online meeting with a doctor using video and voice chat on a computer or mobile device. If necessary, the employee can go to a clinic to receive care in-person. However, a large number of workplace injuries do not require going to a hospital. As the injury heals, the injured worker can have quick and periodic follow-up medical visits doctors online Read More
Contributing to the Future of Medicine: The Ursinus College William A. Norcross, M.D. ’70 Fund
Physicians, often deservedly, are looked at by the public as people who have an almost bottomless capacity to help people. This was put to test during the coronavirus pandemic, where healthcare workers put everything they had and more into their jobs in order to try and save the lives of people during the worst pandemic of our lifetime. In reality, healthcare professionals are flesh and bone human beings, subject to the same physical and mental constraints as anyone else. Many in the field make it part of their job to obscure that fact for the sake of their patients… and Read More
Factors to Consider Regarding the Future of California Workers’ Compensation
Dear reader, look into our crystal ball. It shows you the future of California workers’ compensation. All who gaze into it see something different. Some see a workers comp system running with the clarity and ease of a mountain stream. Others simply scream and run away. In this post we will examine workers’ compensation as it is today, and see if we can use this insight to make a few educated guesses of what the future holds.