Two Companies to Run Wal-Mart Telemedicine Clinics

HOUSTON — Two companies — My Healthy Access and NuPhysicia — recently announced that they signed a joint operating agreement to run telemedicine clinics in select Houston-area Wal-Mart supercenters. The service will connect patients with physician-directed medical care, and will be called “Walk-In Telemedicine Health Care.”

NuPhysicia is a private medical services company that runs the longest and largest telemedicine program in the world. The NuPhysicia service will be used in clinics that My Healthy Access operates.

The service lets physicians communicate with medical staff through remote telemedicine. The physician directs the care and the medical staff member carries it out.

NuPhysicia started in 1997 and has served thousands of patients worldwide, while My Healthy Access provides retail healthcare clinics to urban supercenters. 

The telemedicine format allows one physician to handle multiple clinics, which will “dramatically cut expenses and increase net profit,” according to the My Healthy Access Web site. Representatives claim that since a physician will be leading the visits, patient care will be of high quality.

Sources: NuPhysicia

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