Whois & Analysis for americanwell.com

Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technology to provide clinical health care from a distance.

It helps eliminate distance barriers and can improve access to medical services that would often not be consistently available in distant rural communities.

It is also used to save lives in critical care and emergency situations.

American Well is a privately held telehealth company based in Boston, Massachusetts that connects patients instantly with doctors over secure video.

The company provides immediate urgent care web visits for patients in 46 states.

The service operates on computers, and in 2013 American Well released mobile applications for both Android and iOS operating systems.

The apps enables a mobile-optimized version of the same video visits.

A patient is any recipient of health care services.

The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a advanced practice registered nurse, physiotherapist, physician, physician assistant, psychologist, podiatrist, veterinarian, or other health care provider.

A physician, medical practitioner, medical doctor, or simply doctor is a professional who practises medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining, or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.

Physicians may focus their practice on certain disease categories, types of patients and methods of treatment—known as specialities—or they may assume responsibility for the provision of continuing and comprehensive medical care to individuals, families, and communities—known as general practice.

Medical practice properly requires both a detailed knowledge of the academic disciplines (such as anatomy and physiology) underlying diseases and their treatment—the science of medicine—and also a decent competence in its applied practice—the art or craft of medicine.

Nursing credentials and certifications are the various credentials and certifications that a person must have to practice nursing legally.

Nurses' postnominal letters (abbreviations listed after the name) reflect their credentials—that is, their achievements in nursing education, licensure, certification, and fellowship.

The letters usually appear in the following order: