Proliferation of private online healthcare companies
Proliferation of private online healthcare companies
With an app for just about everything, why not one for contacting your doctor? In the United Kingdom, private companies offering primary healthcare are proliferating, with Dr Morton, a website offering email or telephone consultations, and Dr Now, a smartphone app offering video consultations. Companies in the United States are offering an Uber-type experience, where instead of a car, a doctor appears at your door. These companies operate in a climate where patients want convenience, flexibility, and speed of access, features which overstretched general practitioners in the UK are struggling to provide. Meanwhile, new companies are appearing regularly, with the UK digital health market currently worth £2bn (?2.6bn; $2.8bn) and expected to grow to £2.9bn by 2018.2 What are the implications for the NHS?
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Salisbury, Chris
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Campbell, John
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McKinstry, Brian
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23 February 2016
Watson, Jessica
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Salisbury, Chris
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Atherton, Helen
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Campbell, John
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McKinstry, Brian
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Ziebland, Sue
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Watson, Jessica, Salisbury, Chris, Atherton, Helen, Campbell, John, McKinstry, Brian and Ziebland, Sue
(2016)
Proliferation of private online healthcare companies.
BMJ, 352, [i1076].
(doi:10.1136/bmj.i1076).
Abstract
With an app for just about everything, why not one for contacting your doctor? In the United Kingdom, private companies offering primary healthcare are proliferating, with Dr Morton, a website offering email or telephone consultations, and Dr Now, a smartphone app offering video consultations. Companies in the United States are offering an Uber-type experience, where instead of a car, a doctor appears at your door. These companies operate in a climate where patients want convenience, flexibility, and speed of access, features which overstretched general practitioners in the UK are struggling to provide. Meanwhile, new companies are appearing regularly, with the UK digital health market currently worth £2bn (?2.6bn; $2.8bn) and expected to grow to £2.9bn by 2018.2 What are the implications for the NHS?
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