Is this health care's year of linux? I have been working around remote video telehealth since the late 90s. It has always been right around the corner.
Here in British Columbia it's reality. I get my regular meds prescription refills using eqvirtual and when I got tendonitis during the lockdown I called the office and my doc called me back on the phone and totally causally just texted me a link to set up a video chat and we conducted our business just like that.
We always had teledoc, but it's an imperfect technology, can the doctor examine you with a stethoscope, can he check your BP, can he check your throat or blood-oxygen levels? NO? All he can do is ask for your symptoms and suggest what is at best an imperfect diagnosis and medications.
The Teladoc program will actually upload some of your ios health data if you permit it (I might, but the privacy granularity is inadequate). So in theory the doctor could get my BP, HRT, BG etc...assuming I, the layperson, used the cuff properly.
But also note https://www.cpsbc.ca/for-physicians/college-connector/2017-V...