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Telemedicine shakes up Japan's health care sector

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By Kaori Kaneko and Izumi Nakagawa

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citing concerns about misdiagnosis.

Is it a problem with telemedicine? Because it seems misdiagnosis is a thing here. Perhaps everywhere, but at least back home, I was given more explanations and answers and therefore more power to look it up and perhaps realize something isn’t right.

With no 2 way conversation happening in the office, I wonder what telemedicine looks like in japan....

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It's an aging population, getting on bord with new technology and the social distance is hard for people who's whole life untill now has been face to face. But give it time, change can happen, might be forced but it can happen.

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Still unable to take blood or other body fluids for checking remotely, measure physical symptoms such as heart or lung function, touch the patients to ascertain pain or physical symptoms, and administer diagnostic tests or medicines; but it does provide a useful screening service, and as stated above, is useful for longer term monitoring. Should be integrated into total health plan.

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In Australia we use Telehealth and its always with your own GP or if like myself I regularly talk to my Transplant Hospital doctors via Telehealth and as both my GP and hospital doctors have my medical records. With this information and seeing and listening to you via Telehealth your doctor can make a diagnosis based on your current and past symptoms and medical history.

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Going to reload prescription meds when your condition hasnt changed should not require going to the clinic or hospital sitting in a waiting room only to get to see the doctor to be told your medicine will be continued like it has for the last 10 years, then going around the corner to pick up the damn stuff.

Surely they can figure out a teleconsultation will suffice and a message to the dispensary to collect the meds instead of all the faffing around once a month.

Not comfortable having to sit in a waiting room with a bunch of sick people just to get a reload on meds i have been taking for 10 years .

But then this is Jpan the land of advanced technology and intelligence after all cough cough .

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and how come the meds cant be delivered from the pharmacy like they do when they are unable to fullfil your script when they are out of stock. Simply too stupid to figure it out.

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and how come the meds cant be delivered from the pharmacy like they do when they are unable to fullfil your script when they are out of stock. Simply too stupid to figure it out.

Not sure what you mean but my Japanese mother-in-law is having her meds delivered.

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therougou - quite simply why cant the doctor email the pharmacy the repeat of the prescription and so then the pharmacy can simply arrange to deliver the medicine or even a regular patient could just go in and pick it up.

Sitting around in waiting rooms full of sick people makes alot of sense though I guess....... if you are in the business of making money off treating sick people, the sicker they are or become the better your business becomes, until they eventually die, but those who implemented this stupid system do not have the foresight to understand that .

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American companies will take over the Japanese health care system. Be warned.

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No, telemedicine won’t replace face to face contact for diagnosis.

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