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The Doctor of the Future?

By on November 18, 2012 in Ideas

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Fast Company:

“This is a $2.4 trillion industry run on handwritten notes,” says 33-year-old Dr. Jay Parkinson. “We’re using 3,000-year-old tools to deliver health care in the richest country on the planet.” His prescription: a Facebook-like platform that uses technology, from IM to video chat, to restore the traditional doctor-patient relationship that has been lost in today’s high-pressure, high-volume, eight-minute-appointment practice model, which is often blamed for the shortage of primary-care physicians.

Parkinson, fresh from residencies in pediatrics and preventive medicine and a master’s in public health from Johns Hopkins, started a virtual practice in 2007, in Williamsburg, a Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood known for its heavy concentration of artists, bloggers, and bushy beards. He had a Web site and a blog, of course. He made house calls and conducted same-day e-visits. He accepted PayPal, but not insurance. Three hundred patients signed up in the first three months.

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,208 posts to the site.

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  • http://wahm.business-opportunities.biz Angela Shupe

    This reminds me of that doctor franchise you mentioned some time back that is beginning to take video chat requests.

    Hearing about the same idea again tells me it must be growing. About time, too! It’s nice to see another person taking on people he can treat using technology instead of long wait times and short appointments.

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