Local NC healthcare providers offer video doctor visits

Local healthcare providers are taking the term "see your doctor" to a new level. Novant Health Inc., which operates Forsyth Medical Center, recently started offering video visits through the Novant Health Express Care facility at 4136 Clemmons Road in Clemmons. Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has a new video-visit program for employees and their family members, and is working on a plan to open visits to all its patients. Novant offers video visits within MyChart, an electronic health records portal, for nonemergency health issues. Patients must have a computer, laptop or mobile device such as a smartphone; a webcam; and a MyChart account.