The fulcrum
of modern super-speciality healthcare services is reaching out to where the services are most needed. Rich or poor, from city or town or
village, educated or uneducated,
skilled or semi-skilled… health emergencies spare none. India is among the few countries with the most advanced super-speciality healthcare services. However, these facilities are
urban-centric while 67% of the country’s population still lives in small towns and villages. As most super-specialist doctors and their
support systems are available only in
metros and major cities, there is a visible gap between the need and feed of super-speciality healthcare services in
India. The comprehensive solution to bridge this gap is Hyderabad-based Rxpert
Super Specialty e-Clinics, run by a team of enthusiastic healthcare professionals with decades
of domain experience.
General
practitioners in small Indian towns and villages in both public and private
healthcare facilities provide the best
medical services to their ability, but certain chronic cases call for the
timely intervention of super-speciality doctors. Conventionally, those rural patients who
require super-speciality services are advised by their family physician
to visit the city to consult the super-specialist doctors,
which may force the patients
to travel many miles. However, 8 out of 10 such patients do not
undertake the city travel due to many reasons like not having time, not being able to arrange the funds immediately or not having anyone to accompany them to the city. As a result, they keep changing the doctors locally and
aggravate their problems beyond any possibility of treatment. Even if a
patient from a small town or a village is willing to visit a
super-specialist doctor in the city, he will not know who the best doctor is or have no idea how much the treatment would cost. Further,
a major chunk of their money goes into
non-medical expenses like travel, food, and stay in the city.
This
establishes the need for Rxpert Super Specialty e-Clinics through which the family physician of
the patient can put his patient to a super-specialist doctor directly from his chamber,
without the patient having to travel to the city. Rxpert Super Speciality
e-Clinics is a comprehensive consultation platform where each patient has his/her permanent electronic
medical record (EMR) that can
be simultaneously accessed by both general
physician and specialist doctor. Along
with the real- time vitals, doctors can store the entire medical history of the patients,
including the diagnostic reports and digital
prescriptions in this EMR. With the convenience of referring to EMR
while on video conversation, the specialist doctor will not miss any
significant part of the patient’s medical history. As the patient is presented
to the super specialist doctor by the patient’s family physician, it is easy for the
super specialist doctor to have any real-time
physical examination done on the patient through
the family physician. This makes the patient feel like being physically taken to the
city-based super-specialist doctor. Usually,
rural patients who travel to the city
to consult a super-specialist doctor do not necessarily have to be hospitalised
and undergo a medical procedure on
the very first visit. They are often
advised with initial medication therapy, before any major medical procedure or surgery. With Rxpert Super Speciality e-Clinics, this first visit by the patient to the super specialist doctor can be done
without having to travel to the city. Thus,
Rxpert will help these patients cut down
on one visit to the city. Patients
may travel to the city only when it is necessary for a major diagnostic procedure
or surgery.
Rxpert
Super Speciality e-Clinics services
are currently available in select towns and villages
in Telangana and Karnataka. More than
30,000 patients have already availed of the super-speciality services
through this well-designed technology platform. Promoters are planning for the expansion
of services to other states, by joining hands
with enthusiastic like-minded professionals from the quarters of
corporate hospitals, healthcare
investors, NGOs and healthcare conglomerates.
For further details,
please contact:
Lakshmoji Tejomurtula
Founder Director
Rxpert Super Speciality e-Clinics
lakshmoji@rxpert.net
