In view of the urgency of the situation, it was necessary to devise a new care pathway that would relieve hospital overcrowding, avoid contamination and reserve beds for the most seriously ill, while facilitating the work of medical staff. To this end, the system of teleconsultation, which allows patients to consult a doctor without having to travel, was made more flexible.
For patients with or suspected of having Covid-19, but who do not require hospitalization, several applications now allow patients to benefit from remote monitoring at home via medical questionnaires offered once or several times a day.
Two platforms for the public complete the system: one to help French people worried about being contaminated to assess their symptoms and advise them on what to do, the other to check whether a drug presents risks in the case of self-medication. These two tools will help to relieve congestion on the 15 and reduce the number of calls to doctors.
Maladiecoronavirus.fr : a website to compare your symptoms with those of Covid-19
Covid-19 is a difficult disease to diagnose for most of us. Its first symptoms are often confused with those of more "banal" diseases.The Digital Alliance against Covid-19 has put online a website to allow people who think they may be infected to take an anonymous and free "test": 24 questions about their symptoms (fever, cough, respiratory discomfort, aches and pains...) but also about their medical history, their age
Thanks to an algorithm developed and updated by doctors and researchers from the Pasteur Institute, the APHP, and the university hospitals of Rennes, Lille and Angers, the site advises you to stay at home, to consult your doctor or to call the emergency number 15 immediately.
"A public interest initiative, the site is being developed to help limit the pressure on the 15 and emergency services."The Digital Alliance for Covid-19Références :
brings together Docaposte, Lille-based start-up Kelindi, the Dernier Cri agency, Allianz France and the law firm De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés. The consortium is supported by AG2R La Mondiale, AstraZeneca, CompuGroup Medical, Johnson & Johnson, La Banque Postale Assurances, Malakoff Humanis, the teleconsultation platform MesDocteurs and the VYV group.Covid19-medicaments.com: to check if a drug presents risks in case of Covid-19 symptoms
The national network of regional pharmacovigilance centers (CRPV), the pharmacology department of the Bordeaux University Hospital and Synapse Medicine have created a site that allows patients to obtain an answer on the risks of self-medication in case of Covid-19 symptoms.The website is intended only for people who have symptoms of COVID-19: fever, fatigue, headache, cough and sore throat, body aches, respiratory discomfort.
To check whether a medication could pose a potential risk of worsening these symptoms, simply enter the name of the treatment in the search bar and answer two questions: " Was this medication prescribed to you by a doctor with a prescription?" and " Do you take this medication on a daily or near-daily basis to treat a chronic condition?"
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Relaxation of medical teleconsultation to avoid travel
Teleconsultation simplifies patients' access to a consultation. In case of symptoms, the doctor can then propose to the patient an adapted treatment (prescription, sick leave, etc.) or refer him to a screening site.A decree, published on March 10, has greatly facilitated access to medical teleconsultations. Since the decree, it is no longer mandatory to go through one's primary care physician or to have had a physical consultation in the previous 12 months with the physician in question to be reimbursed for a teleconsultation. People who suspect they are infected with Covid-19 can request any doctor and be covered. The only condition is that they prefer a practitioner in their territory.
Patients are invited to contact preferably a doctor indicated by the health insurance or an attending physician in his territory: the decree also allows " if he does not find one that he can contact by FaceTime or WhatsApp another doctor who is able to make his prescription, his work stoppage," had detailed the Minister of Health on France Info March 10 morning.