ANYWHERE HEALTHCARE
AUSTRALIA
Anywhere Healthcare intends to use apps to provide additional and improved services to interested patients . Instead of making an appointment to see a specialist online , patients will be able to take a picture of their wound or skin lesion and , using an app , be able to collect the information required by a specialist to make a remote diagnosis . The process would include capturing the relevant information , sending it to Anywhere Healthcare and having an appropriate specialist review the images and notes , with a diagnosis potentially being available in as little as 24 hours .
Continuous Improvement Anywhere Healthcare is constantly evaluating its practice and services offered to ensure that they are clinically relevant and appropriate . They have engaged approximately 30 specialists in varied fields of practice , and have 14 employees who focus on the clinical , IT and marketing aspects to support and build the practice . Furthermore , to ensure the timely delivery of patientcentre care , third-party vendors are also engaged to assist in areas of high service demand such as Medical Transcription .
It is not hard for an organisation like Anywhere Healthcare to attract employees , as people like the work the company is doing . Their employees , specialists and referring GPs believe in equitable access to healthcare and in improving healthcare in regional or remote areas . Anywhere Healthcare enables specialists to work flexible hours , and to fit a telehealth practice around their other public and private practice commitments . Anywhere Healthcare also enables specialists to work from any location within Australia , provided they have access to the Internet , which particularly suits specialists who have young children or who are winding down from the long hours generally required to maintain a full time practice , as well as those who wish to live in regional areas but do not have sufficient local patient demand to make it viable .
Anywhere Healthcare has experienced strong growth ; since the practice was launched in October 2012 , the number of
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