Bystanders are often left wondering how to handle emergency situations. If the medical necessity is grave enough to warrant a medical flight, live streaming the emergency situation to the first responders through video streaming can be quite helpful. With the connectivity and mobile enablement that the world enjoys today, making this possible is not a tough ask. All it would take is an app that covers privacy, consent and similar concerns. The chances of the injured or ill getting immediate help becomes easy. Bystanders can get instructions from qualified first responders.
Addressing the Privacy Concern
The app will certainly help the patients immensely; however, there can be privacy concerns. The solution – treatment, if needed, can be delivered after an expressed consent from the patient. Moreover, the video need not be recorded or stored on either ends, both the patient and first responders. In fact, the kind of application is already being used in United Kingdom. A dedicated solution like this to emergency response centers, can do a lot of good. Since every medical flight covers a huge amount of distance, people, especially in rural America, can benefit significantly.
The Need for Medical Flight Can be Gauged
In situations where there is no qualified medical professional to make a decision whether the patient needs emergency medical flight services, the mobile app can be of immense help. The ‘medical necessity’, which plays a huge part in insurance approvals, can be determined quickly and effectively so that the patient is free of such worries from the word go and where applicable, an informed decision can be made.
Integration of such an app widely is important. If each player in the medical flight industry comes up with a unique platform to execute this, it would be a disaster. What the industry needs is a common platform so that execution becomes easy.
