Doctors
Comprehensive care
More Time
Sustainable Practice Management
iXOPE
iXope enables doctors to spend more time on patient-care during their consultations and expand their services to attract new patients to the practice. With increasing patient numbers and billable services, practices can operate more sustainably and ensure they can continue to provide high-quality and comprehensive services.
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DIGITAL AND PROCEDURES
Using 82 doctors, we conducted our own research to further investigate the wants and needs of general practitioners. Even though most doctors are satisfied with the current devices they are using daily, we found that most wish they could attain devices to perform procedures on the eyes and ears. There is also a general consensus amongst doctors that the future of healthcare lies with digital medical devices and AI integration. We also found that digital images for documentation are in high demand amongst practitioners.
QUICK AND EASY DOCUMENTATION
iXope is designed to save doctors precious time, reducing the need for time-consuming documentations and referrals. Additionally, images via iXope accurately document what doctors find during their examinations, leaving less room for human error. As we know, images of regular skin and eye checks are the best way to compare changes over time. Injuries or infections of the eye and ear can be reliably followed up by using iScope and can also be used to document the progression of wound care.
EXTENDED COMPREHENSIVE CARE
With iXope, doctors can now treat their patients more comprehensively in the comfort of their own practice. Ultimately, iXope helps doctors, patients, specialists and health professionals to work more collaboratively together to achieve the best health outcomes. As a result, this establishes a good reputation as a high-quality health care provider, working to keep existing patients all the while attracting new ones to the practice.
COLLABORATION
General practitioners regularly refer to or consult specialists for further opinions. Images play a vital role in helping specialists to establish the correct diagnosis remotely. Images give doctors in remote areas access to specialist support. This means instead of carrying all the responsibility on their own, patient management can be collaboratively shared which improves patient safety and further protects doctors against medico-legal consequences.
Reviewing images remotely also has the potential to create new medical services. Patients often find it hard to understand doctors when they are explaining their findings. Whereas an image helps patients further understand their condition and gives the doctor something tangible to show them.
Patients
Improved patient experience
Time and cost saving
Healthcare access in remote areas
iXOPE
With the emergence of e-Health, patients will also be able to carry the images via an app on their phone. In the case that patients change doctors, the digital images from their initial examination continue to be available via their app, which they can then share with other doctors, specialists and health professionals at their own discretion. Therefore, iXope not only reduces waiting times and associated health care costs for patients, but also empowers them to take ownership of their own health.
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INCLUSION
Patients want to be included in their health care plan and feel empowered to make their own decisions. With better understanding comes better compliance and trust in the doctor’s decision-making process.
Patients will be able to carry the images on the App of their phone. They can take these images to their appointments and share them with other health professionals involved in their care. With eHealth emerging, the images will give patients access to services of their choice.
EXTENDED SERVICES
Using iXope, patients can have ear, eye and skin procedures done in the comfort of their family practice instead of a specialist or hospital setting. Skin and eye checks can be done by a trained professional in any location and can be remotely reviewed for diagnosis and treatment advice. Therefore, the extended services that iXope provides is helping make healthcare more accessible in remote communities.
SAVING TIME AND MONEY
Referrals to a specialist are often not available on the same day. Instead, patients have to go to the emergency department, where there are long waiting times to see an emergency doctor. Occasionally, an in-hospital specialist will be asked to review the patient in the emergency department. Since seeing a specialist on the same day is often not possible, this can often delay treatment and prevent patients from receiving relief.
With the current economic strain caused by Covid-19 and inflation, patients are finding it harder than ever before to afford expensive medical services. Therefore, if ear and eye procedures were conducted by general practitioners instead of specialists, patients would only pay 1/3 of the fee. With iXope, patients receive treatment from their family doctor immediately, instead of waiting hours in hospital or days to get a specialist appointment. Doctors in remote areas could also manage acute treatment of the eyes and ears, which could be a game-changer for many remote clinicians and patients.
Healthcare
Reduces cost and hospital presentations
Improves patient outcome and collaboration
iXOPE
iXope makes health care more accessible and affordable worldwide. Hospital costs can be significantly reduced and valuable time for doctors freed up, both of which makes primary health care more time and cost-effective.
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REDUCED COSTS
The average cost for a non-admitted Emergency Department presentation in Australia is AU$755. There are approximately around 2 million hospital presentations for foreign body removal from the eye in the U.S.A, Europe and Australia, costing the public health system AU$1 billion every year. Since the iXope enables these procedures to take place in general practice, it could save up to AU$700 million every year, free up time for specialists and reduce the current backlog in the hospital. Treatment by the general practitioner would mean these treatments are more accessible to patients to offered at an affordable price.
Increased provision of microsuction in the community would seem to be a useful approach in improving safety.
REDUCED HOSPITAL PRESENTATION
With the iXope, images can be easily shared with other health professionals for better collaboration and communication to streamline patient management. Specialist advice is particularly sought for eye conditions, all of which require a slit lamp examination. Instead, sending images live to the specialist directly using iXope means patients can be treated instantly by their GP after receiving specialist advice. This would cut two extra doctor consultations, which would usually be required by the patient to attain the results of their examination. Not only would this save patient time, but it would free around 2 million hours for hospital doctors in the U.S.A, Europe and Australia annually.
SUPPORT FOR REMOTE AREAS
Remote areas are lacking access to essential medical services. This limits how regularly patients can have skin and eye checks as a part of chronic disease management. Acute injuries of the eyes and ears often have lengthy delays before being treated. Now, iXope-trained personnel can conduct examinations and send images to specialists to be reviewed for diagnosis and treatment advice. This significantly reduces the patient’s treatment time, enabling them to get relief and a diagnosis substantially quicker.
Junior doctors commonly have rural rotation where supervision is required. Using iXope, they can exchange images remotely with specialists and get the right advice. This increases patient safety and enables doctors in remote areas to feel empowered throughout their decision-making process and treatment plan.
Developing countries having a large population of people located in remote areas, many of whom have very limited access to medical services. In such cases, where access to doctors may be difficult, a trained nurse could use iScope to perform minor procedures and consult specialists remotely.
