Telemedicine offers a grand future for healthcare but only if doctors, patients don't jeopardise it themselves

Telemedicine services — lauded for their time and cost savings — have come under the microscope recently after the authorities found MaNaDr Clinic, a telemedicine provider, to be lacking "clinical and ethical standards” in their operations.

Many cases seen by the clinic’s doctors involved video calls lasting less than a minute, but concluded with prescriptions for medications and issuances of MCs, investigations by the Ministry of Health (MOH) revealed.

MOH has said that it intends to strip MaNaDr Clinic of its licence to provide all outpatient services, with 41 doctors who provided teleconsultations for the clinic to be referred to the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) for potential professional misconduct.

Read more here (ST): Big Read: Telemedicine offers a grand future for healthcare but only if doctors, patients don't jeopardise it themselves