Its pitch is that KRY reduces pressure on highly strained healthcare systems by offering a "more accessible and convenient digital consultation service", by allowing patients to get a video-based consultation from the comfort of their home, using KRY's app.
The potential advantages of DP include telepathology, digital consultation and slide sharing, pathology education, indexing and retrieval of cases, and the use of automated image analysis [ 1– 4].
European state-funded healthcare services vary by country but in France Kry says the government is implementing a national system for public reimbursement of digital healthcare consultations via video — "in light of unequal access, increasing costs and over-usage of emergency services".
Simple Contacts focuses the benefits of digital health and online consultations with a specific niche market that has recurring revenue and an easily addressable pain point.
"We urge full and meaningful consultation before digital spies infiltrate the care sector.
Its euphoric lead single, "Gobbledigook," has met with similar enthusiasm, perhaps partly because of a digital video made in consultation with the art photographer Ryan McGinley, whose work inspired it.
There were no significant differences between the two groups with respect to colonoscopy examinations, digital rectal examinations or urological consultations.
This review assesses whether telemedicine follow-up care of patients with leg and foot ulcers, specifically the transfer of digital still images or video consultations, affects clinical, behavioral or organizational outcomes compared with traditional follow-up care.
The primary themes were the general impression of the home programme and user perceptions of the in-person start-up meeting, the education sessions, the educational videos, the exercising sessions and the exercise video (COPD only), the individual consultations and the digital health diary.
The DBIS says it has had its public consultation on the Digital Britain plans.
