The Mayo Clinic has launched a pilot program that installs video kiosks in workplaces — sort of an unmanned version of the now-common retail express clinic.
The Post-Bulletin has a report on the kiosks, which offer a video hookup with a health care provider; employees can use the service to get treatment for “minor, common health conditions,” according to a statement from the Rochester, Minn.-based clinic.
No appointment is needed. The idea is to give employees a way to get medical attention for simple ailments without needing to leave work (and without the cost of staffing an on-site clinic).
So far the kiosks have been tested with Mayo Clinic Health System employees in Austin and Albert Lea, Minn.. If it works, Mayo will offer it to other employers.
Date: October 06, 2014