We have nearly 3.85M mobile phone connections in NZ as of 30 June 2017. Every one of these mobiles has a data connection. Why is this important? Because in 2017, 124,000 adults did not visit a GP because of lack of transport, but they all have a mobile. Every year over 100,000 New Zealanders can’t see a GP when they … Read More
How we use data to keep your employees well
Doctor2Go is using biometrics in the workplace where the participants have opted in for coaching as a part of a personalized digital health wellness initiative. Monitoring biometric data like blood pressure and heart rate is critical to providing effective patient care. Until very recently collecting this vital clinical information required healthcare providers to be present with the patient. However, all … Read More
Healthy workplaces are more profitable – Telehealth is good for the bottomline
Last Friday we had a potential new customer who advised us he was feeling ill and needed to see his GP the following Monday. This meant changing our meeting scheduled for that day. We were to discuss implementing Doctor2Go. We set up some credentials, spoke with our medical team to ensure they were fine with accepting a new patient we … Read More
Are you meeting your legal & ethical obligations to reduce occupational stress?
Pressure in the workplace is inevitable due to the requirements of the contemporary work environment. When that pressure becomes excessive or otherwise unmanageable, it leads to stress. According to the World Health Organization, work-related stress is recognized worldwide as a major challenge to workers’ health. Stress can be harmful to workers’ health and at the same time damage their organizations’ … Read More
The Growing Trend towards Telehealth: Virtual healthcare in the workplace
Increased access to computers, the Internet, and cellphones is changing how people communicate, exchange information, and learn. Because of this, there has been a growing trend towards telehealth. Furthermore, this is changing how medicine is practised and is progressively becoming requisite to healthcare infrastructures, particularly in developed countries. Telehealth allows healthcare providers to evaluate, diagnose and treat patients remotely using … Read More