【老友所醫】是本港首創、結合資訊科技和醫療服務的共享平台，長者和照顧者用手機應用程式，即可預約社區裡的醫生上門診症或提供遙距的視像診症服務，並享用藥物速遞和轉介等配套服務。老友所醫旨在加強社區的長者基層醫療，促進長者健康，讓他們融入社區、居家安老；同時減省長者醫療的社會成本和紓解公私營醫療系統資源失衡的問題。

老友所醫期望發揮的社會效益：

• 讓長者積極參與社會，發揮在社區的角色和安享康樂頣年；
• 減低照顧者的社會成本，包括時間、精神壓力等
• 減少長者使用醫院急症室、入住率和住院時間；
• 鼓勵私人執業醫生善用閒置時間服務長者，特別是弱勢長者。

“DoctorNow NEEDS” is the first-of-its-kind sharing platform that integrates information technology and medical service. Elderly people and their caretakers can book a doctor to provide door-to-door and video medical consultation using a mobile app, and enjoy medicine delivery and specialty service referral. We are committed to strengthening the primary healthcare for the elderly in the community so as to promote health, social participation and ageing in place, as well as addressing the imbalance of medical resources between the public and private healthcare systems.  

Social impacts DoctorNow Needs want to make:

• To enable elders to take an active role in the community, and enjoy happy and healthy post-retirement life;
• To reduce the burdens on caretakers as well as the social costs of the elderly health care.
• To reduce the Accident & Emergency attendance, hospital admissions and stay time at hospital of elderly people.  
• To encourage private medical practitioners to serve the elderly community, in particular the disadvantaged elders, with their unused/underutilised time.  

DoctorNow Needs 
Gary Fong | gary@doctornow.hk | (852) 64255646
Room 1001, 10/F, Hang Seng Tsimshatsui Building, 18 Carnarvon Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong
website: needs.doctornow.hk
facebook: www.facebook.com/DNNeeds/