I recently saw a website called VisionCareTelemedicine.com that says it offers telemedicine services, is telemedicine reliable?

I did hear about this what telemedicine program. It seems to be an emerging program that has been strongly supported by national leaders, so it should still be relatively reliable. Here is some information I found:

Telemedicine is already a mature program in many developed countries. In the last decade or so, teleconsultation technology, too, has begun to develop in our country.

Telemedicine consultation, that is, the use of e-mail, Web site, letters, telephone, fax and other modern communication tools, for patients to complete the analysis of medical records, diagnosis of the condition, and further determine the treatment plan for treatment, it is extremely convenient, diagnosis of extremely reliable new way of consultation, which is in close cooperation with mail order, a strong drive to the reform and progress of the traditional way of treatment, for the medical treatment to the regional Expansion, service internationalization provides a solid foundation and powerful conditions, but also for the standardization of the medical market, evaluation of medical quality standards, improve the medical service system, the exchange of medical service experience provides new guidelines and tools.

The remote consultation can completely fulfill the traditional consultation and diagnosis tasks. Traditional diagnosis is "looking, smelling, asking, cutting".

Looking: with the development of science and technology, has evolved into "from the height, weight, body mass to determine the dosage of medication", in this regard, the remote consultation can understand more carefully the content and items, at the same time, let the patient to determine their own body mass, more authoritative and accurate.

Smell: only useful for special conditions such as "diabetic ketoacidosis", "various types of pesticide poisoning" and other diseases complicated by odor, and in the remote consultation, the patient through the letter, telephone and other tools can be expressed clearly. 

Inquiry: It is to inquire about the development process of the disease, the patient's main symptoms, pain, which relies entirely on the doctor's questions and the patient's answer to realize, remote consultation, experts will be by telephone with the patient and his family to carry out a detailed inquiry, to further clarify the condition of the disease, which achieves an understanding of the condition, diagnosis of the disease effect than the patient in person, the doctor asked questions face to face is more accurate, more accurate. 

Cutting diagnosis: Simply put, it is to take the pulse. This method, although China's traditional medical treasure, but with the development of science and modern laboratories, inspection means of improvement, cut diagnosis is not the main means of understanding, diagnosis of the disease. We go to the hospital, the situation is often like this: to the hospital, registration, queuing, the doctor briefly asked, the doctor to open a variety of laboratory tests and checklists, patients go to the laboratory, check, the patient laboratory tests and inspections, the patient after taking the laboratory test report card and then look for the doctor, the doctor according to the report card to diagnose and then make a treatment plan. Instrumentation: the progress and development of modern science, within a certain range is synchronized, therefore, the same level of hospital laboratory tests, inspection level is not comparable, the reason why a hospital laboratory test results are often not recognized by other hospital doctors, in addition to the fear of the purpose of identification of the condition, the lawsuit of the patient to make false statements, through the inspection, laboratory tests for the hospital to generate income, is also one of the important reasons, especially now! Many hospitals to open the laboratory checklist of the doctor commission, but also increase this does not recognize the hospital's laboratory, test results and let the patient re-check the bad habits of laboratory, thus wasting a lot of time and cost of the patient. The practice of recognizing local test results used in teleconsultation effectively overcomes these shortcomings and saves patients a lot of time and money. 

With the development of science and technology and the advancement of communication tools, teleconsultation will gradually replace the traditional way of consultation in which the patient must be physically present, so that the patient can be diagnosed and consulted by the relevant specialists at home without leaving his home and then decide whether to go to the hospital for treatment or to stay at home in the family bed according to the results of the consultation.

While this telemedicine program is worth believing in, I don't know much about this telemedicine network. It's up to you to decide if it's reliable or not.