Setting up telemedicine in a doctor's surgery

Do you want to improve the care and access to care for your patients? Thanks to new technologies, you can offer telemedicine services in your health center at lower cost.

France has set up a national telemedicine deployment plan, and here are its recommendations.

Why set up a telemedicine service in your practice?

Opting for telemedicine means looking to the future with theuse of information and communication technologies. The global pandemic has accelerated its development, forcing doctors and patients to respect social distance. It's the fight against medical deserts and access to care for all that is the real battle for the deployment of teleconsultation booths throughout France.

Teleconsultation improves access to care for your patients

Telemedicine meets a need:access to healthcare for all. In terms of public health, France has a duty to anticipate, understand and act on medical needs. For example, the fight against medical deserts in France is an obstacle to protecting the population's health. Telemedicine is a concrete response to this challenge.

Consulting a doctor remotely is the ideal solution. It will enable you, as healthcare professionals, to relieve the pressure on your waiting room, while becoming more accessible and available to your patients. Booking an appointment will no longer be a marathon. What's more, you'll be able to considerably reduce the number of home visits you make, by offering an alternative to patients who can't travel.

Thanks to e-health, you no longer need to make an appointment to see a general practitioner. What's more, you won't have to wait more than 3 days for an appointment with a specialist.

Telemedicine: expand your patient base with better follow-up

As a general practitioner, you can improve patient follow-up with teleconsultation. Online medical practice is just as effective as face-to-face. Thanks to connected medical tools, auscultation allows you to make a precise diagnosis, and even prescribe additional medication or analyses.

Whether you're a general practitioner or a specialist, telemedicine will enable you to keep your patients and win more of them. Despite distance and confinement, you'll be able to :

• Manage patients in need of urgent medical attention,
• Monitor your patients, those suffering from chronic illnesses or long-term infections, or elderly dependents,
• Ensure reimbursement by the French social security system.

To guarantee a teleconsultation service, you need to organize your activity by dedicating time slots to it.

How do you set up a telemedicine service in your practice?

Setting up telemedicine activities telemedicine activities in a medical practice is facilitated by service providers who set up and maintain the installations. However, it does require the use of technical and IT tools and equipment, which are essential for providing telemedicine services. You need to know how to use them, understand how they work, and even plan a solution in the event of a component malfunction.

Teleconsultation tools and equipment for your practice

The good news is that you don't have to identify or find these materials yourself. Many service providers today offer comprehensive, customized services according to :

• Specialties involved: ophthalmology, dermatology, gynecology, pediatrics, geriatrics, psychiatry, oncology, etc.
• Patient typology and the various pathologies treated ;
• Types of practitioners and caregivers: private practitioners, general practitioners, specialists, nurses, midwives, surgeons or multidisciplinary.
• The types of frequent medical acts envisaged: teleconsultation, teleassistance, tele-expertise and/or medical regulation.

Depending on your needs, telemedicine providers can include :

• A platform where you can communicate directly with your patients via videoconference,
• The provision of an interface where you can store each patient's medical data (medical file, prescription history, test results, etc.) to ensure a coordinated, well-organized care pathway,
• The installation of a cabin for enhanced teleconsultation if you wish.

A general practitioner needs to be trained in the use of these new technologies, and to master them. He or she must integrate the patient/healthcare professional relationship into a care pathway, while making the right diagnosis. From a distance, the doctor must be able to assess the relevance of a teleconsultation by guiding the patient through the initial consultation.

Set up your telemedicine service with Tessan

Would you like to offer telemedicine services in your healthcare facility? Tessan provides you with all the equipment you need to set up your teleconsultation shifts.

Fully committed to the fight against medical desertification, we offer these services:

• Free access to our teleconsultation platform,
• Free training in the use of our state-of-the-art platform and connected equipment,
• Providing the necessary tools and connected medical devices.

Tessan also enables you to offer augmented teleconsultation services. With its unique teleconsultation booth, it is possible to carry out complete medical diagnoses, as well as 90% of the examinations feasible in a normal surgery, and other medical procedures such as taking constants, photos and other indicators (SpO2, BP, VO2 max, etc.).

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