ExpressDoctors.com Becomes the First Web Site to Dispatch Doctors Directly to Patient.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 14, 1999-- Immediate help for Non-life Threatening Ailments ExpressDoc, Inc. (dba ExperssDoctors, Inc.) announced today the launch of ExpressDoctors.com, the first Web site to allow patients the ability to request a doctor over the Internet and receive a visit to their home, office, or hotel, usually within one hour. ExpressDoctors.com, which caters to people suffering only from non-life threatening ailments, offers a convenient and cost-effective alternative to trying to make an appointment at a doctor's office or visiting an emergency room. It does so by providing Internet and telephone access to its 24-hour call center that has thousands of available doctors across the U.S. The doctors accessible through ExpressDoctors.com are board-certified, hospital-affiliated and State-licensed. In addition, ExpressDoctors.com checks all physicians' credentials through the American Medical Association American Medical Association (AMA), professional physicians' organization (founded 1847). Its goals are to protect the interests of American physicians, advance public health, and support the growth of medical science. (AMA (Automatic Message Accounting) The recording and reporting of telephone calls within a telephone system. It includes the calling and called parties and start and stop times of the call. ). "Patients require medical assistance 1.5 billion times annually in the U.S. yet there has been no centralized system to help them find a doctor during times when their own doctor isn't immediately available," according to Rob Kelly, ExpressDoctors' Chief Executive Officer, "Many people are unable to get a same-day doctor's appointment during normal office-hours; and there are few choices after-hours other than a typically uncomfortable, expensive and lengthy visit to an emergency room." The ExpressDoctors system allows patients to request a doctor directly through www.ExpressDoctors.com by filling out a simple request form. Patients then receive a reply within 3 minutes from the company's 24-hour call center with information on an available doctor and how soon they can visit the patient. Patients preferring to use the telephone can request a doctor through a toll-free telephone number A toll-free, Freecall, Freephone, or 800 number is a special telephone number, in that the called party is charged the cost of the calls by the telephone carrier, instead of the calling party. at 1-877-DOC-2-YOU. The basic charge for using ExpressDoctors is $150 from 8am to 10pm on weekdays and $195 at other times and is reimbursable through many health insurance programs. ExpressDoctors' physicians provide patients with a form to help them receive reimbursement from their health insurance companies. For travelers visiting the U.S. from overseas, the ExpressDoctors service is available through over 20 leading travel insurance companies. Testimonials from users of the ExpressDoctors service include: "Who'd believe that you could have a doctor come to our house and administer to my 71 year old mother who was visiting from Europe and suffers from sciatica sciatica (sīăt`ĭkə), severe pain in the leg along the sciatic nerve and its branches. It may be caused by injury or pressure to the base of the nerve in the lower back, or by metabolic, toxic, or infectious disease. . Rather than go to an emergency room (20 miles away) and wait for relief, ExpressDoctors dispatched Dr Soloman Diaz who was at the house within 45 minutes... How economical and efficient and what a relief for mom...We were so happy with ExpressDoctors and will recommend you to all our traveling relatives." -- Maria Coumez, Toledo, OH "You guys are the greatest! We had a gig in Chicago and Tommy (our lead singer) came down with laryngitis laryngitis, inflammation of the mucous membrane of the voice box, or larynx, usually accompanied by hoarseness, sore throat, and coughing. Acute laryngitis is often a secondary bacterial infection triggered by infecting agents causing such illnesses as colds, . We called ExpressDoctors from on-board the plane. We discussed the problem and your Dr. Wolf met us at the hotel upon our arrival. Needless to say Tommy was great, the concert was successful. We were simply blown away by ExpressDoctors." -- Doug Avenue, "The Gills" LA "ExpressDoctors, you saved our trip. My sprained ankle was taped up within an hour of my call to ExpressDoctors and we continued on to LA. Our hotel recommended your company and I certainly will do the same." -- Colin Everts Everts may refer to:
About ExpressDoctors ExpressDoctors is an Internet/phone-based referral system used by patients seeking a doctor for non-life threatening ailments. Founded in 1997 as a phone-based service the company differentiates itself from other leading Internet healthcare companies, such as Healtheon/WebMD (HLTH HLTH Health HLTH WebMD Corporation (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ), drkoop (KOOP), Drugstore.com (DSCM DSCM Dry Standard Cubic Meter DSCM Demand and Supply Chain Management DSCM Digital Security Countermeasures DSCM Data Standards Configuration Management Board DSCM Master Chief Data Systems Technician (US Navy Rating) ), OnHealth (ONHN), MediConsult (MCNS MCNS Managing Cisco Network Security MCNS Multimedia Cable Network Systems MCNS Media Centre for National Security (Sri Lanka) MCNS Ministerial Committee for National Security (Iraq) ), CareInsite (CARI CARI Consejo Argentino para las Relaciones Internacionales (French) CARI Canadian Association of Recycling Industries CARI Central Agricultural Research Institute (Sri Lanka) ) and CyBear, Inc. (CYBA CYBA Charter Yacht Broker Association CYBA Conejo Youth Basketball Association (Conejo Valley, California) CYBA California Yacht Brokers Association CYBA Cybertron Army CYBA Columbia Yacht Brokers Association ), by focusing exclusively on immediately connecting patients with doctors. ExpressDoctors and the ExpressDoctors logo are trademarks of ExpressDoctors, Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. For more information, press or broadcast only: Adina Freidman or Kim Klein, GCTV, 212-339-9920, adina@gctelevision, kim@gctelevision Note to Editors: If you are interested in viewing additional information on ExpressDoctors, please visit www.expressdoctors.com |
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