Telehealth

Visiting your healthcare provider in person can be inconvenient or sometimes impossible. At Barudin Wellness in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, Amy Barudin, NP-C, and her team use telehealth services so you can consult with them remotely. Their secure, protected video link technology allows you to receive virtual acute care and other services without leaving your home or workplace. Call Barudin Wellness for more details on using telehealth, or book your appointment online today.

What is telehealth?

Telehealth provides access to your health care team via your smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer.

With Barudin Wellness’s secure telehealth service, you can see and talk to your provider from your home or workplace using internet video conferencing technology.

What benefits does telehealth deliver?

Telehealth offers many benefits to patients. Firstly, logging in remotely is much more convenient than traveling to your health care provider’s office. You avoid driving or taking public transport and don’t have to deal with the crowds, noise, and stress that such journeys often involve.

You save significant time because you don’t have to allow for traveling or waiting — you simply log in at your appointment time. You don’t have the expense and hassle of organizing child care if you’re a parent, and telehealth appointments take minimal time out of your work day.

In addition, using telehealth limits your exposure to infectious diseases, including colds, flu, stomach bugs, and COVID-19. This is particularly valuable for people with depressed immune systems who can’t fight off infection so well and those who are vulnerable to complications from getting sick.

Telehealth also gives you access to health care when mental health problems or disabilities make leaving home challenging.

What happens at a telehealth consultation?

Telehealth consultations at Barudin Wellness are similar to in-person visits in most ways. Your provider reviews your medical history, relevant test results, and symptoms.

They can perform a remote physical exam by asking you to use your smartphone or other device’s camera to show them symptoms like swelling, rashes, and other abnormalities, and identify where you feel pain.

If your provider can’t diagnose your symptoms remotely or you need lab services or diagnostic imaging procedures, you can still attend an in-person appointment at Barudin Wellness’s office.

What services can I access through telehealth?

Barudin Wellness uses telehealth to diagnose and treat acute health problems, including:

• Abdominal pain
• Headaches
• Rashes
• Musculoskeletal pain
• Sore throat
• Runny nose, cough, and sneezing
• Fever
• Diarrhea
• Ear pain
• Nausea and vomiting

Your provider can send electronic prescriptions for any medicines you require.

You can also use telehealth for prescription refills, test and procedure result reviews, and chronic disease management checkups. Health insurance providers often cover telehealth services, but check with yours first before scheduling your appointment.

Call Barudin Wellness to discover more about telehealth’s many benefits, or request an appointment using the online booking feature today.