(Reuters-Jerusalem Post) An Israeli tele-medicine company is looking to replace some doctor visits with a new device that allows patients an accurate self-examination from home. The Tytocare device allows patients to measure their own vital signs - heart rate or temperature - as well as to conduct examinations of organs such as ears, throat and lungs. "We basically replicate a face-to-face interaction with a remote clinician while allowing him to do a full physical examination, analysis and the diagnosis of a patient at home," explained Dedi Gilad, CEO and co-founder of Tytocare. The TytoHome package can be used by parents of young children who find themselves arriving at a doctor's clinic too often, people with disabilities, or populations residing in rural areas where health care services are scarce. In the U.S., the average cost of a primary care visit is $170, while a telemedicine visit costs $50. Tele-medicine also eliminates the costs involved in maintaining a physical clinic. The TytoHome package has FDA approval and is already marketed in the U.S. Israel's Schneider Children's Hospital compared the accuracy and quality of physical check-ups done by Tyto to those conducted by doctors and found almost no difference between the two types of examinations.
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