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Healthcare providers and organizations that rely on medical imaging for diagnostics, treatment, and monitoring prefer Medicai as their telemedicine platform of choice. With Medicai, patients can easily upload their imaging studies and medical documents online. Patient evaluation is done online (async telemedicine). The consultation and interpretation can be done asynchronously or synchronously. Medicai is a fast and reliable infrastructure for telemedicine and telehealth solutions, enabling data sharing in a secure and compliant way.
By seamlessly integrating three essential features into its async care platform, Medicai transforms telemedicine and telehealth:
Connect & Retrieve: Healthcare providers can easily retrieve imaging data from their patients. Through Medicai Node technology, which installs in a matter of minutes, doctors can easily get images from imaging centers.
Store & Manage: By utilizing its scalable cloud architecture, Medicai enables healthcare providers to securely store and manage patients' imaging data.
Access & Visualize: easy and compliant access to patient data; DICOM viewing capabilities on mobile and web; sharing capabilities. Healthcare practitioners interpret imaging studies using Medicai's DICOM viewer component.
Facilitates both synchronous and asynchronous telehealth: It enables patients to securely share medical images with healthcare providers for remote review and interpretation, either in real time or at their convenience later.
Medicai API for Telemedicine App Development: Healthcare providers with technical capabilities leverage our API's to develop custom telemedicine software on top of their existing healthcare systems.
Medicai Imaging Uploader: Enables patients to send their medical files (including imaging studies).
Audio-Video integration: Thanks to our Zoom integration, Medicai provides audio/video calling capabilities.
Payment integration: Medicai can manage payments.
Convenience: It enables patients to access healthcare services from the comfort of their homes, eliminating the need for travel and in-person visits.
Accessibility: Enables telehealth applications to expand patients' access to health care services in remote or underserved areas, improving healthcare equity and outcomes.
Efficiency: Streamlines healthcare delivery by reducing wait times and enabling asynchronous communication between patients and health care providers.
Cost-effectiveness: reduces health care costs associated with travel and in-person visits while improving patient satisfaction and outcomes.
Patients can securely upload their medical images to the Medicai telemedicine platform for remote review and interpretation by healthcare providers.
Asynchronous telemedicine capabilities facilitate convenient communication and collaboration between patients and healthcare practitioners, promoting efficient and effective health care delivery.
Patients upload their imaging studies, together with other relevant medical documents, via the easy-to-use Medicai Uploader.
Imaging studies can also be uploaded from the Medicai Portal.
Imaging studies can also be retrieved automatically by connecting to existing imaging infrastructure.
The cloud stores patient medical records, including imaging studies.
Patient data can be accessed from anywhere, securely, through our Doctor Portal and Doctor Apps for iOS and Android.
We can implement advanced telemedicine flows on top of our Medicai APIs.
Through our doctor portal and mobile apps, telemedicine becomes easy and efficient. Doctors can evaluate their patients and diagnose them with the help of our Medical Imaging Uploader and included DICOM Viewer. Online consultations can be done using our audio/video capabilities (integration with Zoom). Our solution also enables follow-up and monitoring.
This is a sample of how a DICOM file looks like when viewed in Medicai. Available in both our web and mobile apps, and also easily embedabble in your own solution, our DICOM viewer solution comes connected to a cloud PACS readily available.
"With Medicai, we have access to the patient medical data like CT scans and other medical documents. For more than a year now, we have organized our multidisciplinary discussions of diffuse interstitial lung diseases online, using the Medicai platform. The purpose of these discussions is to establish a definite diagnosis and to bring consensus on the therapeutic recommendations."
MD. PhD. Claudia Toma
Senior Lecturer and Expert Pulmonologist with IPF/ILDs
By selecting Medicai, you're partnering with a trusted telemedicine solution provider that has experience with asynchronous telemedicine. Our API and embeddable DICOM components facilitate fast telemedicine software development and telemedicine app development for tech-savvy health care providers.
Our platform is an ideal choice for health care providers looking to improve their telehealth solutions and telemedicine capabilities since it has an easy-to-use interface, strong security features, and seamless integration with current healthcare systems.
What is an example of an asynchronous telehealth format?
In dermatology, an example of asynchronous telehealth involves a patient taking digital photographs of a skin condition and completing a detailed symptom questionnaire.
These materials are then uploaded to a secure telehealth platform.
A dermatologist offering telehealth services reviews the submitted images and information at their convenience, makes a diagnosis, and answers patient questions without real-time interaction with the patient.
As a result, asynchronous telehealth is highly efficient for conditions that can be visually diagnosed and offers the flexibility of handling cases at times that are suitable for both the patient and the healthcare provider.
These diverse types of telemedicine (synchronous, asynchronous telehealthcare, or RPM's) enhance access to healthcare services, improve patient monitoring and management by allowing them to choose unique telehealth programs, and increase the efficiency of healthcare delivery across various settings.
Can telemedicine and telehealth be asynchronous?
Yes, telemedicine and telehealth can indeed be asynchronous. Asynchronous telemedicine, also known as "store-and-forward" telemedicine, eliminates the need for healthcare providers and patients to communicate in real time.
Instead, asynchronous telemedicine consultations collect and send medical data such as images, videos, and patient records to a healthcare provider at their convenience.
The provider reviews the information later and then sends back their diagnosis, recommendations, or prescriptions.
This method is particularly useful in specialties such as dermatology, radiology, and pathology, where detailed examination of patient data is essential and can be done without immediate interaction.
Asynchronous telehealth allows for greater scheduling flexibility and can be especially effective in managing healthcare resources and expanding access to medical services in areas with few healthcare providers.
What is the difference between asynchronous telehealth and synchronous telehealth?
Synchronous telehealth involves real-time, interactive communication between patients and healthcare providers, similar to traditional in-person visits, and is beneficial for immediate feedback and assessments.
Asynchronous telehealth (async), also known as asynchronous care or asynchronous healthcare, involves the transmission of medical data like images and records at different times, allowing for flexible scheduling and in-depth analysis of patient information.
While synchronous telehealth is ideal for urgent care and consultations that require real-time interaction, asynchronous telehealth is suited for cases where a detailed review of medical information is necessary without the need for an immediate response.
Both asynchronous telehealth and synchronous telehealth expand access to healthcare, particularly in remote or underserved regions, considering effectiveness and safety at the same time.
What types of telehealth and telemedicine exist?
With the rise of telehealth, the area became more and more developed. We can now categorize telemedicine into three primary types, each serving different purposes and offering unique advantages:
The synchronous telehealth model involves real-time, two-way interaction between a patient and a healthcare provider via telecommunications technology. Telehealth tools can include video conferencing, telephone calls, or live chatting.
Synchronous telehealth is useful for consultations, follow-up visits, mental health sessions, and situations requiring immediate clinical decision-making.
In the async telehealth model, a telehealth visit first collects medical information (such as medical images, biosignals, and other data). The information is then transmitted to a doctor or medical specialist at a convenient time.
Asynchronous telehealth differs from synchronous telehealth in that it does not require both parties to be present at the same time and primarily reduces the number of office visits.
Dermatology, radiology, and pathology frequently use asynchronous telehealth when thorough patient data evaluation is required.
RPM is a telehealth branch that is somewhat similar to asynchronous telehealth in that it allows healthcare providers to monitor patients remotely using medical devices to collect data on vital signs, blood pressure, heart rate, blood sugar, and other relevant health data.
This type of telehealth is particularly beneficial for managing chronic conditions, post-operation recovery, and elderly care because it allows for continuous care without the need for frequent in-person visits.
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