Virtual as good as Face to Face
May 18th, 2009 by Steve
So says a study just out from Massachusetts General Hospital. They go on to say, “Someday, even doctor visits could be among the conveniences offered via the Internet. In a comparison of desktop videoconferencing to conventional face-to-face general medical evaluations, patients found virtual visits similar to face-to-face visits on most measures.”
That’s definitely been my experience since I started offering this kind of virtual access beginning in 2007 to my patients through a part of my practice I call Diabetes HouseCall. I work with patients throughout Texas and also Iowa since I am also licensed there although I reside in Texas. We’re in the process of evaluating our own data now and hope to publish results in the next few months.
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May 22nd, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Good blog - I hadn’t found it before.
I’m just writing to invite your community to check out my new column on sex and diabetes on Diabetes Health.com. I’m writing it with my partner Aisha. It’s good. The first column is at
http://www.diabeteshealth.com/read/2009/04/13/6152/love-and-diabetes
The second column is at http://www.diabeteshealth.com/read/2009/05/11/6192/sex-and-diabetes. Let me know how you like them and what could make them better.