Private mobile app "Medworks" helps rapidly connect people to various medical specialists

An up-and-coming health care app is lifting off as it helps connect patients with doctors in quicker, more accessible ways, providing home visits or consultations either over the phone, or via video call.

"Medworks" gives patients access to a wide scope of specialists right off the bat, as opposed to just a family doctor, who would need to give a referral. This includes dieticians, paramedics, dermatologists and beyond.

The service, however, is a private and paid one, leaving many doctors — including Toronto’s Dr. Naheed Dosani — to worry about how Canada’s “finite” resources will be impacted with technologies like Medworks.

“When we see private pay options like this, healthcare professionals that could have been working in the public health-care system are diverted to the private, pay systems,” Dr. Dosani said.

Global's Katherine Ward reports.

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