Physician Baseline Questionnaire |
1. healthEnet: using e-health to create health equity
Dear physician,
health-E-net is a service that aims to provide patients in poor, under-served areas of the world with direct access to you, a medical specialist, for a second opinion.
This access will be based around conditions for which medical investigations have already been carried out, and the patient has been given an initial diagnosis and/or treatment plan.
health-E-net aims to set up and run 'access clinics' in small towns and cities across developing countries - any town where medical investigations are regularly carried out. These centres would NOT be based in large cities where specialist services are already widely available.
The access clinics will help patients gain access to their investigations and store the data on a patient-controlled digital platform. health-E-net staff consisting of trained nurses and junior doctors would then assist patients in contacting an appropriate specialist for their needs.
Your services are sought on a purely voluntary basis.
The service for patients would be free or at nominal cost.
Your opinions would not be subject to legal challenge.
How will we be sustainable?
The data storage platform and the network of specialists would be free for any person from a developing country to access. Patients who can afford to pay for specialist opinion, often the educated elite, would upload their data and directly contact a specialist of their choice for second opinions. Any such independently requested consultation would be charged. These charges would help run the access clinics in poor, under-served communities.
We hope you, as a medical specialist, would be willing to participate in this endeavour. We would appreciate your responses to a few questions and any feedback on the concept.
Thank you.
The health-E-net team.
health-E-net is a service that aims to provide patients in poor, under-served areas of the world with direct access to you, a medical specialist, for a second opinion.
This access will be based around conditions for which medical investigations have already been carried out, and the patient has been given an initial diagnosis and/or treatment plan.
health-E-net aims to set up and run 'access clinics' in small towns and cities across developing countries - any town where medical investigations are regularly carried out. These centres would NOT be based in large cities where specialist services are already widely available.
The access clinics will help patients gain access to their investigations and store the data on a patient-controlled digital platform. health-E-net staff consisting of trained nurses and junior doctors would then assist patients in contacting an appropriate specialist for their needs.
Your services are sought on a purely voluntary basis.
The service for patients would be free or at nominal cost.
Your opinions would not be subject to legal challenge.
How will we be sustainable?
The data storage platform and the network of specialists would be free for any person from a developing country to access. Patients who can afford to pay for specialist opinion, often the educated elite, would upload their data and directly contact a specialist of their choice for second opinions. Any such independently requested consultation would be charged. These charges would help run the access clinics in poor, under-served communities.
We hope you, as a medical specialist, would be willing to participate in this endeavour. We would appreciate your responses to a few questions and any feedback on the concept.
Thank you.
The health-E-net team.