This App Is Taking Virtual Health Care To New, Hassle-Free Heights

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Visiting your doctor’s office when you’re feeling under the weather is a royal pain in the ass, not to mention anxiety-inducing when you already think something could be wrong with you. And it can be even worse when you feel perfectly fine but still have to sit around for hours for a simple prescription refill authorization.

That’s why the advent of telemedicine — the ability to speak with a doctor and receive a diagnosis and prescription if necessary all via your phone or computer screen — is proving to be such a game changer in the medical space. And a particular service provider called HeyDoctor stands out among this bunch of innovators because of its hassle-free approach to health care.

HeyDoctor is a medical app that offers inexpensive primary and urgent care via a few simple taps on the phone — no office visit, phone call, video chat or insurance required. It aims to help people with a variety of conditions within five minutes and makes access to necessary prescriptions and treatments a breeze. And as of October 25, it’s available in 15 states, increasing its preexisting geographical coverage by 50 percent.

According to the HeyDoctor website, the app can assist anyone with 12 simple medical services ranging from birth control refills to UTI treatment to smoking cessation assistance. As the platform expands along with its service offerings and coverage areas, it aims to, in the words of CEO Rohit Malhotra, “make health care suck less.”

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“We are starting with primary care, but our goal is to make HeyDoctor and our partner health systems the first place people go for health care online,” said Malhotra in a statement. And while the idea of expanding telemedical care makes some people nervous, the well-stacked advisory team of doctors, researchers and public health professionals behind the app leaves those at HeyDoctor confident in their ability to be a safe and reliable agent of change in the medical space.

Most millennials can agree that saving time and money — and avoiding stress and anxiety — are top priorities. So why not apply that logic to your health care and make things easier on yourself? Despite what our current dysfunctional system says, it really doesn’t have to be that difficult.

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