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e-med〔(e-Med Portal )〕(e-Med Private Medical Services) is an online medical site based in the UK, staffed and owned by doctors. It is notable for being the first〔(GP treats patients 'over the internet' )''BBC'', 23 July 2000〕 web portal to offer consultation, diagnosis, referral and prescription services〔(The doctor will e-mail you now ) ''The Independent'', 3 May 2005〕 to remote patients via email and Skype video conferencing, and for a controversial General Medical Council case.〔( Online doctor put patients at risk, hearing told ) ''Guardian'', 13 February 2007〕 ==e-med== In the UK, e-med (e-med Private Medical Services Ltd) was the first〔''BBC'', over the internet〕 online health site to offer both diagnosis and prescriptions over the internet to patients without the time or proximity to visit a doctor. It was established in March 2000 〔(House call - No appointments, no waiting, speedy diagnosis and prescription - online doctors are flourishing. But are they safe? ), ''The Guardian'', 4 June 2000〕 by Dr. Julian Eden, drawing on his remote medicine experience as a doctor serving the world traveller,〔(Ask The Doctor ) The travel health website for travellers〕〔(The obsessive traveller ) ''The Independent'', 7 January 2001〕 SCUBA and dive population(between 2002 to 2004, he was ''The Guardian'' newspaper's "Flying Doctor").〔(Flying doctor ) ''The Guardian'', 10 May 2003 〕 At the time, e-med's instant popularity (with six hundred patients signed up in the first month) was criticised〔(Patients flock to net doctors ) ''BBC'', 25 May 2000 〕 by the medical establishment, including the BMA (British Medical Association). Dr Paul Cundy, a member of the BMA's IT committee, argued: " When it comes to online consultation or diagnosis, then I think the internet is simply not robust enough. There are no regulations to protect patients and they are completely and utterly at the mercy of internet doctors."〔''BBC'', Patients flock to net doctors〕 In 2011, e-med had logged over one million consultations and was serving 500,000 patients worldwide annually.〔(What we do ) About e-med〕 e-med was also the first medical practice to use Skype,〔(Skype opens up to net doctor ) ''Skype'' release March 2008〕 the videoconferencing service, to conduct "face-to-face" consultations between doctors and patients in different locations. The model established by e-med and other UK online consulting sites〔(British websites are pushing boundaries of online medicine )''USA Today'' 8 July 2011, quote: "The British websites are definitely an exception, but they are the start of a trend we will soon see everywhere," Dr. Steinar Pedersen, a founder and special adviser at the Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine.〕 is not only being adopted in other European countries but also by the UK's state medical service. Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, the medical director of the NHS (National Health Service), mandated with implementing new plans to introduce online consultations via Skype has said IT will "completely change the way () deliver medicine".〔(The doctor will see you now . . . over the internet )''The Times'' quoting Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS Medical Director, 29 August 2011〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「E-med」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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