MD247 is the leader in providing patients a convenient and affordable method by which to talk to a doctor now, and we are here to stay! Supplemental healthcare using telemedicine allows medical professionals to improve patient care, while minimizing cost and maximizing efficiency. Please visit http://www.md247.com to learn more about the

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Telehealth Expands MNT Therapy
According to the Indian Health Service’s (IHS) OIT June newsletter, five of the six leading causes of death among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people are nutrition-related. Unfortunately, most AI/AN communities do not have adequate access to nutrition services.

Telehealth is providing a new service model for healthcare facilities to help AI/AN increase access to Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) and Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME). Individual and group telenutrition services as well as DSME are reimbursable services through Medicare for patients with diabetes, end-stage kidney disease, or patients that have received a kidney transplant. Medicare Part B covers individuals and groups diagnosed with non-dialysis kidney disease.

Since 2006, the IHS Telenutrition Program has been providing nationwide individual and groups MNT and other nutrition services using video-conferencing to IHS and tribal facilities. Diane Phillips, IHS Telenutrition Program Director with the Native American Cardiology Program was one of the first registered dietitians in the IHS to deliver MNT services in real-time.

The telenutrition program has provided access to nutrition services to over 1500 patients plus provided over 150 hours of nutrition training to community-based diabetes outreach workers and fitness instructors.

Using telenutirition is strengthening partnerships with tribes and at the same time improving quality and access. Also, telenutrition provides a source of revenue and has been documented in research and at IHS/Tribal health facilities to be well accepted by patients, has proven to be equally effective as in-person encounters, and has been used effectively to expand training to reach isolated and rural providers.

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Telemedicine is a technological marvel that has been transforming medicine for close to fifty years.

Telemedicine includes a variety of services or applications, all of which rely on some type of electronic two-way communication between you and the doctor. Favorites preferred by the marketplace include live video, email communications, your smart

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With July already upon the Tampa Florida area, it’s important to remain vigilant about the sun and how you can minimize your risk of skin damage. Not only is sun damage unsightly, it can also be a dangerous gateway to more serious health concerns like skin cancer.  With the number of skin cancer cases per year on the rise, both in our

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“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” – Aristotle

Around a week ago, my mother introduced me to a work friend with the descriptor, “she works on Facebook all day long.” I wasn’t quite sure what to think about that, because my mom seemed pretty happy to tell someone that I haunted the land of Farmville and her friend

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In a victory for citizens nationwide, the Michigan State Senate passed legislation on June 5^th to specify that healthcare insurance providers could not require in-person contact between a doctor and a patient for services appropriately provided through telemedicine. This piece of legislation allows patients to be reimbursed through the healthcare policy.  The Senate action followed earlier action taken by the Michigan House. Of particular note is that the services that are covered under this legislation are already covered under Medicaid, making it common sense that they were made available to private insurers as well.

The nationwide victory is simply that patients in rural areas often live quite a distance from the local hospital, and this legislation will ensure that they receive high quality healthcare without burden.

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Today I had the good fortune to find the film His Girl Friday, a 1940 Howard Hawks classic screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russel. The film chronicles the adventure of an intrepid female reporter, Hildegard Johnson, as she momentarily falls for the allure of a “normal” life with a bland man. The life she is considering

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Kids today aren’t like kids were in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s or even 80s.

The days of “cops and robbers,” kickball and sunburn earned during a hard day live back with my memories of E.T. and Indiana Jones. That loss makes me a little sad to think about, but the reality is that families are a lot different now than they were in the not so

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Telemedicine is the remote diagnosis and treatment of patients by means of telecommunications technology.

Raise your hand if you have absolutely no idea what the definition of telemedicine, as provided above, actually means to your mother or your neighbor across the street. The definition of telemedicine honestly doesn’t do us any good

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We can all agree that people are very often nervous when they talk to a doctor.

It isn’t paranoia to feel like your doctor is intentionally choosing to pay attention ONLY to your written chart.

It’s also a sad reality that respect for the patient, and their value in society, is an idea that is long lost in medicine.

Medicine has changed a lot over the last twenty-five years. The culture in the Emergency Room, the clinic and many other urgent care centers has changed from a world in which treatment just occurred based upon symptoms. It was replaced with a system of more regulations, a frontier of lawsuits and a disconnection from the idea that each and every patient is a person. In short, cash became king due to the high cost of doing business.

Telemedicine is the remote diagnosis and treatment of patients using telecommunications technology, and it has the ability to eliminate the overhead associated with the practice of modern medicine. This is overcome by the practice being conducted in a way that allows the doctor to eliminate the middleman, and connect directly with the person who is ill. Telemedicine effectively takes the issues of nervousness, perceived paranoia and profound feelings of disrespect and tells both doctors and patients to “stop worrying and just do what you do best.”

Telemedicine connects doctor and patient at any time, on any day of the week, across the miles and from home or work and any other location. The doctor’s office is really all of time and space.

More information about the way that telemedicine works, and how it ALWAYS give a patient the opportunity to talk to a doctor can be found on http://www.md247.com! We encourage anyone looking for a supplemental healthcare option to consider the MD247 telemedicine program.

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Common Courtesy:

Common Courtesy is a conventional but unwritten code of practice followed by members of any of certain professions or groups when dealing with strangers, or informal acquaintances.

Do you ever get the impression that your doctor doesn’t respect what you are saying?

Do you ever wonder if your doctor isn’t taking your

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Are you ever nervous, impatient or a little frightened when you talk to a doctor in his office?

Do you ever feel like you’re rushed when you talk to a doctor, possibly forgetting some of your own questions?

It’s true that visits to a doctor’s office often result in moments where we ask ourselves if a doctor “heard” what you said, or if the doctor really listened. The cold reality is that an appointment to talk to a doctor often leads nowhere for a patient, aside from a sense of frustration and potential sadness. The real question is “why” does this happen so frequently or, even more importantly, “why” this is allowed to happen at all?

The simple reality of the situation is that doctors, the people who are meant to “do no harm,” are under an increasingly tremendous amount of pressure to see patient after patient each day. Both waiting rooms and examination rooms serve as cattle holding pens, “comfortably” maintaining the human stock that a doctor desperately needs to cover for the high overhead and low reimbursement fees. It’s a bureaucracy built on the expense of actually doing what they love.

The system of high debt load, massive expense to do business and the realities of insurance reimbursement develop a medical frontier where having a chance to talk to a doctor for more than a few seconds is a dream.

MD247 has a way to solve this with the use of telemedicine, but the idea of expense being the only problem everyone encounters when they try to talk to a doctor is ridiculous. Be sure to follow our series on this topic.

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An integrated healthcare delivery system is typically a managed healthcare system in the United States that includes a hospital that provides immediate, or acute, medical care. The hospital care is complemented by a multispecialty care delivery system, often using technological advances, and the ability to contract for extra necessary services. On

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Integrated healthcare is not a "new" idea in the medical community -

In the western world we have been provided a unique opportunity to enjoy the technological advances of conventional western medicine. The practice is based upon the “Theory of Diseases,” which believes that a person becomes sick because he or she contracts a disease.

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In a drastic move to protect the health and wellness of our MD247 telemedicine program members, we issued an official retraction of our March 26, 2012 nationally distributed press release. The retracted health and wellness oriented press release was entitled “Telemedicine Specialist MD247.COM Provides Female Program Members with Information about Heart Attack Symptoms.”

The March 26, 2012 press release detailed the medical symptoms a woman might experience when suffering a heart attack, and it was meant to serve as an informative and direction providing guide for female readers. The MD247 telemedicine team determined that it was preferable to have program members contact the 24/7 Talk to a Doctor Hotline, or the 24/7 Talk to a Nurse Hotline to discuss non-emergency medical questions regarding potential cardiac symptoms.

MD247 reminds all readers that the telemedicine program is unable to address medical emergency questions, and any/all such questions must be directed toward local immediate emergency assistance.

The telemedicine services MD247 provides are meant to serve as a “supplement” or “enhancing” agent for traditional healthcare policies. MD247 telemedicine is never meant to serve as a replacement for ANY traditional healthcare policy.

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MD247.COM Founder Thomas Meehan alerted national media on this week regarding the continuation of the first in a series of telemedicine specials which are available exclusively on the MD247 telemedicine social media Facebook business page.

The specials discussed by Meehan have the official tag “Deal of the Day,” and represent extreme savings that the discounted healthcare provider will be making available to new MD247 telemedicine program members. The extended first “Deal of the Day” is a ninety day (three month) membership in the MD247.COM telemedicine program for a fee of only $29.95, which is a total savings of 50% off of normal program prices. The telemedicine provider is making it possible for people seeking supplemental healthcare options to talk to a doctor for a significantly discounted rate, when one compares it to the $80.00(+) cash payment required when visiting an Urgent Care Clinic. Meehan indicated that the “Deal of the Day” was designed to put money back in the economy and, if that made it necessary for the MD247 telemedicine program to operate at a loss on the specials, then that was what the company would need to do.

The extended first MD247 “Deal of the Day” goes live again at http://www.facebook.com/md247dotcom on May 29th, and will only be available to interested parties who visit the Facebook page to retrieve the MD247 telemedicine sales hotline number. The telemedicine sales hotline number being provided on May 29th will differ from all other MD247 sales call lines, meaning it must be used in order to redeem the special pricing.

MD247 Founder Thomas Meehan also reminded all potential MD247 telemedicine program members, that the services MD247 provides are meant to serve as a “supplement” or “enhancing” agent for healthcare. MD247 telemedicine is never meant to serve as a replacement for ANY traditional healthcare policy.

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“Perhaps someone somewhere will create something so beautiful it will change the world.” - Unknown

Telemedicine has a reputation for being viewed as dull, confusing or a mix of a ripoff and a scam wrapped in the language of fear. Here at MD247, we have found that we are less than satisfied that telemedicine is considered the black sheep

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Tampa Florida (PRWEB) May 12, 2012

MD247 acknowledges that supplemental telemedicine healthcare services are not the topic of conversation in homes across the United States. History looms over the subject, technological babble covers the frontier and it leaves the masses unprotected by the potential enhancement that telemedicine can grant to the life of a family. MD247 Founder Thomas Meehan recognizes the shortfall for this specialized medical field, and has made the decision to tackle it by providing the Marketing Team at MD247 the opportunity to write “real world” content for the telemedicine website.

The “real world” content proposed by Meehan is intended to provide people who are dealing with the telemedicine product the opportunity to write scripts for use on the MD247 website. The goal is to answer questions that the telemedicine service provider faces every day, effectively building a better educated telemedicine consumer. Meehan went on to explain that the company always wants to leave their clients satisfied, preventing customer care or customer service situations from ever escalating to the point of dissatisfaction.

In order to make the process of content creation both interesting and competitive, MD247 Founder Thomas Meehan has discussed the potential for bonuses paid to employees who write a script which gets used. The company makes a frequent practice of rewarding employees for creativity, production and positive outcome regarding customer care situations.

Largo Florida based MD247.COM (MD247; MD/247; MD 247; M.D.247; MD-247) provides an affordable telemedicine supplement to existing healthcare services. MD247.COM telemedicine program members have unlimited telephone access to a nationwide medical support team, all with just a single phone call to the MD247.COM telemedicine Talk to a Doctor/Talk to a Nurse Hotline. MD247.COM has a virtual platoon of registered nurses; board certified physicians and a support staff available to members for all non-emergency situations. More information about MD247.COM is available online at http://www.md247.com.

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A recent article created in collaboration between Kaiser Health News and USA Today inspired us to pull together an article discussing a little bit about why insurers are now embracing telemedicine for plan members.

Once it was thought that insurers would never embrace the idea of a virtual doctor appointment for their plan participants. Reticence

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“It’s the Wild, Wild West when it comes to prices of anything in the U.S. healthcare system, whether for a doctor visit or for hospital charges,” said Jonathan S. Skinner, a health economist at Dartmouth.

The older readers of the MD247 telemedicine blog will inevitably remember a time when a visit to the doctor, a visit to the hospital or a

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Telemedicine:
The use of telecommunication and information technologies, in order to provide clinical healthcare at a distance. The end goal is to eliminate distance barriers, in order to improve access to medical services that often would not be consistently available in rural areas.

In a society with a sincere expressed interest in eliminating

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Tampa Florida (PRWEB) May 10, 2012

Supplemental telemedicine healthcare provider MD247 announced the relaunch of its official Facebook business page on Wednesday May 09, 2012. The official Facebook business page for the provider of quality of life enhancing telemedicine services is located at http://www.facebook.com/md247dotcom.

According to MD247, the telemedicine Facebook business page has been designed to act as an extension of the MD 247 website. It is meant to work in corroboration with the MD247 YouTube account (http://www.youtube.com/md247dotcom), the MD247 Twitter account (http://www.twitter.com/md247dotcom) and a variety of other social media sites that MD247 intends to go live on within the next six months. Visitors to the Facebook business page will encounter health articles, discussion regarding telemedicine and information regarding how to become a member of the MD247 team.

Largo Florida based MD247.COM (MD247; MD/247; MD 247; M.D.247; MD-247) provides an affordable telemedicine supplement to existing healthcare services. MD247.COM telemedicine program members have unlimited telephone access to a nationwide medical support team, all with just a single phone call to the MD247.COM telemedicine Talk to a Doctor/Talk to a Nurse Hotline. MD247.COM has a virtual platoon of registered nurses, board certified physicians and a support staff available to members for all non-emergency situations. More information about MD247.COM is available online.

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St. Petersburg Florida (PRWEB) May 10, 2012

Provider of supplemental telemedicine healthcare services MD247.com is proud to announce it will be assisting former professional wrestler Steve Chamberland, of the 50 Legs Foundation, in his quest to provide a prosthetic leg to children and adults nationwide who have lost a leg due to injury or

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St. Petersburg Florida (PRWEB) May 10, 2012

Supplemental telemedicine healthcare specialist MD247 announced on Wednesday that they have partnered with Optum Health Allies, a division of the United Health Network, in order to provide quality of life enhancing telemedicine healthcare services to entire families. The partnership with Optum Health Allies allows members of the MD247 supplemental telemedicine healthcare program to receive substantial discounts on certain medical procedures, and there is the benefit of no qualifiers and no deductibles.

For a full review of the services available to members of the MD247 supplemental telemedicine program, through the unique relationship with Optum Health Allies, MD247 recommends visiting http://www.md247.com/services.html.

Largo Florida based MD247.COM (MD247; MD/247; MD 247; M.D.247; MD-247) provides an affordable telemedicine supplement to existing healthcare services. MD247.COM telemedicine program members have unlimited telephone access to a nationwide medical support team, all with just a single phone call to the MD247.COM telemedicine Talk to a Doctor/Talk to a Nurse Hotline. MD247.COM has a virtual platoon of registered nurses, board certified physicians and a support staff available to members for all non-emergency situations.

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The tactics of self proclaimed consumer protection sites Ripoff Report, Scambook and Scam Informer recently resulted in telemedicine specialist MD247 developing a credibility building marketing program. The marketing concept, developed by the MD247 Telemedicine Marketing Team, offers all skeptics the opportunity to use MD247 corporate money to pay for their first non-emergency appointment.

MD247 explains that it believes in the potential life altering outcome its 24/7 telemedicine program will have in both rural and urban frontiers. The belief goes beyond a simple endorsement, with MD247 offering every new program member the opportunity to receive one free medical non-emergency medical appointment. If a new telemedicine program member considers that an average medical appointment can run in excess of $70.00, the provider of supplementary health options is putting forward a sizable investment.

MD247 explains that it would like the “first appointment free” program to serve as a counterweight to the unfounded reports found on consumer “protection” sites like Ripoff Report, Scambook and Scam Informer.

MD247 explains that all parties interested in attaining their free appointment must visit the MD247 telemedicine website at http://www.md247.com to both research, and become a member in the telemedicine program. Becoming a MD247 program member includes one free medical appointment, discounted pharmacy prescription services, discounted vision services and 24/7 access to licensed competent medical professionals.

Largo Florida based MD247.COM (MD247; MD/247; MD 247; M.D.247; MD-247) provides an affordable telemedicine supplement to existing healthcare services. MD247.COM telemedicine program members have unlimited telephone access to a nationwide medical support team, all with just a single phone call to the MD247.COM telemedicine Talk to a Doctor/Talk to a Nurse Hotline. MD247.COM has a virtual platoon of registered nurses, board certified physicians and a support staff available to members for all non-emergency situations. More information about MD247.COM is available online at http://www.md247.com.

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St. Petersburg Florida (PRWEB) May 08, 2012

According to telemedicine provider MD247 47 million U.S. residents are without healthcare coverage; of that number 8.7 million are under the age of eighteen. That is roughly the equivalent to the entire combined populations of Florida, New York, Minnesota and Iowa having zero preventative healthcare

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Tampa, Florida (PRWEB) May 08, 2012

Telemedicine provider MD247 is a first of its kind 24/7 Talk to a Doctor/Talk to a Nurse service which was established for the purpose of providing average people a supplement to either bolster their traditional healthcare coverage. The telemedicine service company informed the press on Tuesday that it would be gravitating away from a traditional print marketing method, placing an emphasis on first person interaction through grass roots campaigns and one on one social media contact. MD247 intends to make these modifications to a traditional marketing plan in order to pass along savings directly to the telemedicine program participants on a daily basis.

The “biggest” attention grabber on the streets in the grass roots marketing campaign is a vehicle deemed the “MD247 Telemedicine Mobile Marketing Vehicle.” The “MD247 Telemedicine Mobile Marketing Vehicle” is a model year 2001 Ford Excursion, with 10” lifts and a “car wrap” which advertises both MD247 and a charitable organization called 50 Legs.

50 Legs is a charitable organization established with the purpose of providing a prosthetic leg to an underprivileged child who has suffered either a debilitating accident, birth defect or disease causing the loss of a leg. You can learn more about 50 Legs by visiting http://www.50legs.com.

MD247 (MD247.COM; MD 247; M.D. 247; MD-247) provides discounted supplementary healthcare options, which are intended to enhance quality of life for telemedicine healthcare program members. MD247 has 25,000 telemedicine program members nationwide, employs close to 200 people and devotes a large amount of time and money toward charitable organizations. The MD247 telemedicine program headquarters is in Tampa Bay Florida.

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St. Petersburg, FL (PRWEB) April 21, 2012

MD247.COM Vice President of Business Development teased local media on Friday regarding a series of specials which would be available exclusively on the telemedicine leaders Facebook page.

The specials teased by Putzbach have been given the official tag “Deal of the Day,” and represent extreme

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St. Petersburg Florida (PRWEB) May 03, 2012 MD247 asked a cross-section of the public today if they have ever been in a position where illness strikes, either themselves or a loved one, leaving the person feeling terrible and looking for the advice of someone capable of providing an expedient course of treatment? MD247 understands it is

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313,483,263 live in the United States, of that number roughly 181,000,000 fall within the age bracket typically thought of as “regular working folks.” Of that working age population, there is close to 14,000,000 reported unemployed men and women who are between the ages of eighteen years and sixty-five years of age. Recent reviews indicate

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Have you ever been in a position where illness strikes, either yourself or a loved one, leaving you feeling terrible and looking for the advice of someone capable of providing an expedient course of treatment? It is frightening to chart the course alone, trying to sort through the advice of well-meaning friends and the abundance of

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Erectile dysfunction occurs when a man can no longer get or maintain an erection firm enough for sexual intercourse. Having erection trouble periodically is not necessarily a concern, but ongoing problems must be medically reviewed. Patient failure to talk to a doctor about erectile dysfunction can lead to anxiety, relationship problems and

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After acquiring a better understanding of your diagnosis of cancer, be it through acceptance or working through the process of gaining knowledge and seeking treatment, it is necessary to look at the forms of treatment available and ask a doctor to explain what is best in your situation. The reality of cancer treatment is that, even twenty years

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As a telemedicine specialist, we are accustomed to new patients being somewhat skeptical of the process of diagnosing illness using telemedicine technologies. Physicians providing a one on one diagnosis of cancer often experience a similar skepticism, but this is instead founded in the “flight or fight” metabolic reaction and is expected by

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As a telemedicine specialist our work is typically confined to the medical conditions easily treated, where life can get back on track after the telehealth diagnosis. Life is not always made up of easily diagnosed and treated medical conditions, meaning that we need to step-up our service and provide information which deviates from our traditional

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Telemedicine: The use of telecommunication and information technologies in order to provide clinical healthcare at a distance.

On the surface, the term “telemedicine” appears to be rather clinical and that fact turns a lot of average people away from telemedicine before they ever discover the positives of being able to talk to a doctor at

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Branding is more than just a buzzword for businesses. It has become the crux of executing business in our new economy. No longer is it acceptable for a company to think in terms of “a sale is the only thing,” rather businesses now understand that the world revolves around branding or creating a “brand experience.” The idea of a brand

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Telemedicine is the ability to provide a patient with interactive healthcare, using technological advances and telecommunications. Telemedicine allows patients to talk to a doctor over video, or telephone, for immediate care of all medical situations which do not require the urgent intervention of an Emergency Room doctor. Whether a patient lives on a farm in Iowa, or the teeming big city of New York, telehealth or telemedicine is an invaluable tool for improving quality of life nationwide.

Positive aspects of telemedicine include:

1. The telemedicine specialist actually hears the medical history, symptoms and current condition directly from the patient.

2. The telemedicine specialist is not only talking directly to the patient, but he is also taking in current symptoms as they surface.

3. The telemedicine specialist can diagnose and recommend immediate courses for treatment of the illness, or the symptoms associated with the illness.

4. The telemedicine specialist has the opportunity to complete a more thorough investigation over the telephone, eliminating the problems brought about by bureaucratic time constraints.

5. The telemedicine specialist can treat patients in their homes, ensuring that patients are staying within their own communities and providing cost savings to the patients by avoiding long distance travel.

How can I learn more about telemedicine?

In order to learn more about telemedicine, we suggest that you either call us at 866-232-1343 or visit MD247 on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/md247dotcom.

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Greetings,

Today the Federal Government released a review indicating that the new jobless claims in the United States hit an unprojected high of 386,000 new claims for unemployment benefits, for the week ending April 13, 2012. The final number is nearly 16,000 claims more than had been expected, and signals the dimming of hopes that a

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The history of our nation inspires my dream for a world in which MD247.COM can breakdown all barriers to affordable healthcare through the use of technological advances.

Our nation can trace its entrepreneurial spirit to the first permanent English settlement of Jamestown, which was located in the Colony of Virginia. Within a year of its 1607

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Have you ever wondered about the technological marvel that is called either “tele-health” or “telemedicine?”

For the last fifty years telemedicine has been growing at a three-fold series of fundamental benefits to the consumer public.

• Improved Access:

Smart phone technology, as well as smart phone entry level pricing, has made

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Hello,

The field of medicine is constantly evolving. Barbers once learned the art of surgery, antibiotics were eventually released on a wide scale for the treatment of infections caused by bacteria and then medicine hit warp speed with technological advances. With current smart phone technology it is possible to monitor everything from a

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Each and every person reading this article has periodically had the feeling that stomach acid is creating an ulcer, but few of us actually have much knowledge regarding the symptoms of peptic ulcers. In order to build the knowledge base, and potentially help a few readers, MD247 will be reviewing the basics of peptic ulcers and the symptoms

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Telemedicine provider MD247 introduces the healthcare marketplace to a legitimate 24 hour medical resource.

St. Petersburg, FL (PRWEB) March 31, 2012

St. Petersburg Florida based telemedicine provider MD247.COM revealed today that according to a recent review, the global telehealth industry is poised for explosive growth over the next decade. The reasoning behind the growth is two-fold, in that the United States has an aging population Baby Boom population, which is hitting milestone years for failing health, and this then pairs with the reality that the government simply can’t pay for everything. Unable to invent a “money tree,” or scam the world that there is such a thing, public healthcare programs like Medicare are finding that they need to reduce the number of hospital visits and do everything that they can to prevent return admissions for the same health issue. In an effort to deal with this problem MD247.COM was first founded locally, and then rolled out state by state until full market coverage was announced in March 2012.

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If you are a member of the MD247.COM program, and begin to feel ill, MD247.COM would like to provide the opportunity to talk to a doctor right away using telephonic physicians network. The benefits of talking to a doctor early on in an illness are well-proven, with those who seek the professional care of a doctor having faster recovery times.

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Have you ever wondered;

• When a fever becomes serious?
• What marks the difference between a broken ankle and a sprained ankle?
• Should I apply ice in this situation, or would it be better if I put the heating pad on it?

Wouldn’t it be fantastic to have a reliable certified resource available to answer these questions for you at any time of day, every day of the week?

All MD247 program members have this service available to them just by picking up the phone and calling a toll free number provided to all MD247 program members.

With the MD247 Talk to a Nurse Hotline, you can speak with a registered nurse 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Experienced professionals are always available to offer you expert answers to your non-emergency medical questions. Simply explain the situation, detail your symptoms, and our nurses will tell you whether your case needs to be handled by one of the MD247 Board Certified Physicians or if you can handle the treatment at home yourself.

It is a simple call that could help give you peace of mind. And best of all, it is a part of the MD247 program membership. Why hesitate? The next time you have any questions about your family's health, call the MD247 Talk to a Nurse Hotline.

Please remember the MD247 Talk to a Nurse Hotline is ONLY for non-emergency medical questions.

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