Telemedicine Health Care for the RV Lifestyle

New technology advances have made telemedicine health care for the RV Lifestyle a great way to find peace of mind when far from your normal health care providers.

In Episode 428 of the RV Podcast, we explore a set of professional medical devices that, through the Internet, allow your regular healthcare professionals back home to do a remote physical exam on you just as if you were in the office.

These remarkable telemedicine healthcare tools are being used by major hospitals, clinics, and health practitioners across North America and take virtual care to a whole new level.

In the podcast this week, we interview an RVing couple from Canada who have the kit and have used it to provide realtime readouts of their medical condition through the high-tech tools that connect to the Internet.

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How the Tytocare Remote Exam Kit can provide telemedicine health care for the RV Lifestyle

Jordan and Mellisa Cait and the TytoCare Kit that can provide telemedicine health care for the RV Lifestyle

As reported in NewTravelTech.com, remote and virtual telemedicine has seen a major surge in use and development since the COVID pandemic of 2020. A slew of medical apps and medical tools have been incorporated into smartphones and devices like the Apple Watch that can provide things like EKG measurements of your heart, blood pressure readings, blood oxygen levels, and more.

But with the development of something called the Tytocare Remote Exam Kit that includes a high-tech stethoscope to check your heart, lungs, and abdomen and an otoscope to check your ears, healthcare providers can do a virtual exam to diagnose your symptoms and come up with a treatment plan.

"It's just as if we were physically in the office with our doctor," said Jordan Cait, who, with wife Melissa, alerted us to this option for remote health care and were interviewed on the podcast.

The Caits showed us the kit, which they obtained from the Cleveland Clinic, where they have subscribed to an Express Care Online program that lets them see and speak with a health provider live, using a mobile phone, tablet, or computer, anytime they need an appointment for coughs, colds, minor pains, and other non-emergency concerns.

If you're traveling anyplace in the United States or Canada, you can be examined with telemedicine. It doesn't matter if you're in midtown New York, on a beach in Florida, at a ranch in Texas, or out in the middle of nowhere in Montana on a camping trip. You really can be anywhere.

Do you have cell phone service here?

All you need is a cell phone connection.

The TytoCare kit enables your healthcare provider to do a real-time medical examination, diagnose your ailments, and prescribe treatment or drugs based on the data returned by the kit.

The Caits describe the process in the podcast interview, noting how the healthcare provider on the other end directed them to use each device, guiding them to position it correctly to properly examine the heart, ears, and throat.

The use for the RVer is obvious.