Love the trend from my GP to do consultations by both Telephone and Face to Face. A telephone consult saves me hours, no driving to the surgery and sitting in the waiting room catching all the germs patients bring with them. No extra hand sanitiser and face mask routine to follow as it sit at home, or in the van, taking to the Dr us a pretty awesome social distancing method. Apparently save the doctors time too. My GP sends any referrals to the front desk for the admin people to print and scripts go straight to my chemist. For my annual blood test/ wellness check, I picked up the referral from the surgery then two doors down to the Blood Suckers. Test results were read to me over the phone. And she Bulk Bills too.
Super happy with the new way of doing some things. Don't ever lament about the Good Ole Days.
Iza
Peter_n_Margaret said
07:30 PM Nov 30, 2020
My GP has been doing 'phone consultations for me when I have been overseas for work since the early '90s.
The difference now is that he can get paid for them, which is only fair. :)
Cheers,
Peter
hufnpuf said
09:11 PM Nov 30, 2020
Yes, I did a consult on the phone in the middle of "covid". It was very convenient, when I didn't need to get looked at for anything. Saved so much time and effort.
dabbler said
12:06 AM Dec 1, 2020
I've had a few GP and Specialist consults by phone. It is very convenient. I do have a face to face appt with GP scheduled in a few weeks, same with next specialist consult in March. They like the phone consults too but we all decided separately that a face to face is best every so often. From my point of view, it gets me out and about when I'm not traveling. It's too tempting to sit on the couch.
dabbler said
12:09 AM Dec 1, 2020
Specialist sent blood request electronically to pathologist system. I still decide whenv and where to have collection work performed and they drag info from the system
dorian said
05:31 AM Dec 1, 2020
It's a great system, but I expect that it will eventually be withdrawn, or irreversibly damaged by lawyers.
Video Call will use up to 1Mbps if that bandwidth is available to them. So, assuming you have enough available upstream and downstream bandwidth, and the call goes for 30 minutes, and it's a call with 2 endpoints, your data usage will be a maximum of:
Data Usage = 30 [min] x 60 [sec] x 1 Mbps x 2 [users] / 8 [bytes] = 450 MB. If your call is made on minimum bandwidth usage, the usage may be more like:
Data Usage = 30 [min] x 60 [sec] x 350Kbps x 2 [users] / 8 [bytes] = 158 MB. It is likely that you will use something between these two numbers.
This calculation is made with 2 endpoints providing one audio-visual connection upstream and downstream each.
If you are planning to bring in a third, fourth or fifth party, your bandwidth usage will increase.'
dabbler said
01:30 AM Dec 2, 2020
Those data numbers are quite small for most mobile plans and negligible if on WiFi. I agree it might be an issue forva small number but I suspect people using this technique have already seen usage effects on their data plans if relying on 4G.
Love the trend from my GP to do consultations by both Telephone and Face to Face. A telephone consult saves me hours, no driving to the surgery and sitting in the waiting room catching all the germs patients bring with them. No extra hand sanitiser and face mask routine to follow as it sit at home, or in the van, taking to the Dr us a pretty awesome social distancing method. Apparently save the doctors time too. My GP sends any referrals to the front desk for the admin people to print and scripts go straight to my chemist. For my annual blood test/ wellness check, I picked up the referral from the surgery then two doors down to the Blood Suckers. Test results were read to me over the phone. And she Bulk Bills too.
Super happy with the new way of doing some things. Don't ever lament about the Good Ole Days.
Iza
The difference now is that he can get paid for them, which is only fair. :)
Cheers,
Peter
Data usage.
https://help.vcc.healthdirect.org.au/itstaff/bandwidthdatausage
'Data usage per call Healthdirect
Video Call will use up to 1Mbps if that bandwidth is available to them. So, assuming you have enough available upstream and downstream bandwidth, and the call goes for 30 minutes, and it's a call with 2 endpoints, your data usage will be a maximum of:
Data Usage = 30 [min] x 60 [sec] x 1 Mbps x 2 [users] / 8 [bytes] = 450 MB. If your call is made on minimum bandwidth usage, the usage may be more like:
Data Usage = 30 [min] x 60 [sec] x 350Kbps x 2 [users] / 8 [bytes] = 158 MB. It is likely that you will use something between these two numbers.
This calculation is made with 2 endpoints providing one audio-visual connection upstream and downstream each.
If you are planning to bring in a third, fourth or fifth party, your bandwidth usage will increase.'