As the coronavirus helps China to fix broken health care system

As he began Dai Yufan, he had a fever and painful cysts to develop their first thought to see a doctor. But because of COVID-19 pandemic, seemed more sinister than visited her symptoms to her local hospital. “So I tried a health service in line,” said Dai, 27, employed in the southern city of Shenzhen. “I asked my condition via an app and [an online doctor] proposed some medications and other treatments.” While doctors crown services has stretched around the world to the breaking point, the virus also has a booming medical online services, known as telemedicine promoted. The industry is estimated to be worth nearly $30 billion this year alone in China and has the potential to transform the Chinese health to reduce the tribe of urban hospitals and offer a temporary solution for rural residents. China already has more than 1,000 companies telemedicine, according to Tianyancha companies, including some run by JD.com technology giant, Baidu, Tencent and Alibaba. From Good Doctor used the subsidiary of Ping An Insurance, the claimed in September were 300 million registered users. Everything can be seen a boom of consultations within the framework of blocking measures. Before the pandemic, Health JD took 10,000 online consultations a day. But as hospitals and clinics were inundated with patients with suspected crown, which has rocketed to 150,000 for the supply with JD health of its pharmacy drugs directly to patients at home. Lijun Xin, CEO of the $7 billion of rated companies, says telemedicine comfort is after crisis subsidies remain attractive. “They have people developed the habit of diagnosis and treatment to get online,” said Xin TIME. “This reduces the pressure on traditional hospitals.” China’s health care system has made great progress in recent decades. Public sector health spending by almost 14 times between the outbreak of SARS in 2003 and the end of 2018, according to a March 2019 report by the WHO and the World Bank. Almost every Chinese citizen has a certain level of health insurance, with patients from an average of 32% of their treatment costs, compared with 60% a decade contributing. But problems persist, especially as a rapidly aging population, the demand for chronic conditions such as arthritis, cancer and heart disease increases to deal with. China has only 1.8 doctors per 1,000 people, compared with 2.4 in the United States and 2.8 in British patent Compounding the situation, doctors in China are weighted unevenly specialties at the expense of primary care. While the United States has a dozen family doctors per 10,000 inhabitants, China has only 2.2 are overloaded with general tasks specialists in Chinese hospitals means. Chinese patients usually queue for many hours of highly rated hospitals for minor foods, but still neglected local clinical suspicion. According to the WHO and the World Bank report, the health of China’s “hospital-centric, fragmented and driven volume.” The system is also to get more expensive, with 5-10% health care costs grow faster than GDP. Online discussions can help explain solve many of these problems because many companies aggressively explore space. Health Baidu has more than 100,000 doctors from all over China, the online consultations 24 hours a day. The platform was made for those with symptoms of pneumonia during the pandemic and had treated more than 54,500,000 April 26 requests, including 400,000 from outside of China. It ‘also examining a blessing for China and underpaid doctors, able to supplement their income through online services. Dr. Qiao Guibin, head of thoracic surgery in the hospital People’s Guangdong Province, to work part-time for Baidu to health. With patients encouraged to stay at home during the pandemic, the online health also reduces the chances of cross-patient infection and doctors. “Online Medical treatment saved many lives during the pandemic,” said Qiao. And not just in China. Qiao is also a patient in Canada who had COVID-19 contract. “It was initially very anxious,” said Qiao. “But I reassured him that youth should not worry too much, because 80% of people do not need medication and COVID-19 [as a viral disease] is self-healing.” Qiao checked with the patient every day during quarantine and some days felt he had fully recovered. “He is very grateful.” There are also benefits for mental health for the patient isolated from friends and family because the blocking measures. Of course, if Cai Anqi, 23, a public health student in London, fever develops were concerned that it might be COVID-19 However, the British patent were guidelines of easy government to self-quarantine unless their symptoms are worsened dramatically. Destroyed by the sense of concern, he turned to China WeDoctor telemedicine providers instead. “I described my condition: fever, dizziness, and runny nose, but without coughing. The doctor’s advice was to rest nutritious foods, drink more water. He said that as long as I do not cough, should be fine, as a cough, the main symptom of COVID-19. After his professional advice, panic I have not so much. After a few days following the doctor’s advice, the fever was gone. “I also attempts to increase the sector in response to pandemic. to allow in March, it approved the President Trump certain federal rules that dispense remote Ärzteversorgung video chat and other services. “What have they done with telemedicine, is incredible,” said Trump. In the other states, they have seen an increase in patient volume dispensers Amwell telemedicine by about 150-300% overall and 700% in the early days of the outbreak in Washington State. Some individual hospitals have more demand has increased 20 per Amwell service protection, in front trying caregivers. Amwell CEO Roy Schoenberg says telemedicine has proven especially valuable in “desert geographical Care” and for elderly patients with mobility problems. “We see this application of technology as a basic health care to democratize and ensure that all access to patient care during COVID-19 and in the future,” says TIME. Telemedicine allows patients to doctors based on their experience and patients to choose Reviews. Dr. Liu Yafeng has 18 years of experience working as a gastroenterologist in Hebei province of China, where he also runs the local hospital oncology and intensive care units. But while he could handle 30 consultations a day in a brick and mortar hospital it is able to handle more than 200 on-line. It only costs 10 RMB ($1.40) for an online consultation on health JD or 15 yuan ($2.10) for advice 15-minute speech. Liu has 15,154 online diagnostics makes the company since he arrived with a patient satisfaction of 99%. “I have a great sense of accomplishment, because all the positive feedback I received from the patient,” he says. However, significant challenges remain: “The biggest challenge of telemedicine derives from diagnosis, which often requires special equipment,” says Liu. “It ‘an emerging industry and can take a long time to solve this problem.” The concerns are the patient, Dai resist. “I’m going to online health services to the pandemic, but I do not believe online medical diagnosis to count as much as a right advice,” he says. “I’m still far from the online doctor. After all, he did not know all my problems.” Zhang Chi / Beijing
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