eedoctors
your virtual doctor's office
Challenges of the health care system
Challenges
- Imminent shortage of GPs worldwide (70% > 55 years old)
- GP unattractive for young doctors
- Behavioral change in how medical advice is seeked
- Availability of medical care treatment in rural areas
- Feminization of medicine, less FTE's available
- Rising costs challenge financing system
Our solution
About us
The first virtual doctor's office for your smartphone
>90% of all cases closed exclusively by eedoctors video consultation
We constantly offer the most innovative access to medical care.
Vision/Mission
We connect the virtual and the physical world of medicine.
Through innovative services, latest technologies and integrative solutions, we continuously improve patient service and treatment quality.
«VIRTUAL DOCTOR’S OFFICE» concept
Business Modell for patients
Partners & clients
Partners
Experience after two years
- Extremely high acceptance
- Age: 3 Months – 79 Years
- Gender: more males than females
- Call distribution: quite even, less on sundays
- Geography: Predominantly DACH region
- Pathologies: illness >> injuries
- Average consultation time: 10:39 min
- Not only banalities, increasingly complex cases
- > 90% completed by video consultation!
Free Live Chat
Free Live Chat
- Low threshold
- Allows initial assessment
- Easily accessible
- 1 to 3 interactions
- Identification with credit card required
Free real-time
chat with a
doctor
Reminder functions for medication
Reminder
function
- Enhances compliance / adherence
- Push notification when it is time to take the medication
- Mandatory confirmation by the patient that medication has been taken
- Can be activated by the eedoctor
- Can be deactivated by the patient
Integration of laboratory exams
Early detection of coronary heart disease
Future medical services
Medical advice
Integrated digital stethoscope
Advantages for the patient:
Advantages for the healthcare system:
- With the video app from eedoctors, patients save time: they reach a doctor from Switzerland immediately
- Geographically independent - Even very rural areas can be reached (sufficient internet connection needed)
- Medical advice while traveling abroad
- Immediate – without scheduling
- Video-consultation allows diagnosis
- Conducted only by highly qualified physicians
- Swiss quality consultations, processes and data security
- Corresponds to patients usual life style and behavior
- Counters the imminent shortage of GP
- Enables patients to remain longer in ambulant care and reintegrates them faster after hospitalization
- Attractive working model , esp. for female physicians with family
- Better Work-Life-Balance
- Attractive for pensioned doctors who still want to practice a little bit
- Can become one of the pillars of (basic) health care provision, along with the classical ambulant medicine and hospitals
Experience after 2 years
Experience
- Extremly high acceptance
- Age: 3 Months – 79 Years
- Gender: more males than females
- Weekly distribution: pretty level, slightly less on Sundays
- Geography: mostly german speaking countries (DACH) increasing consultations in english
- More concerning illness vs. injuries
- Mean onsultation time: 11:30 min
- Not only banalities, increasingly complex cases
- > 90% completed by video-consultation!