Telemedicine

According to this piece the ten most common objectives in telemedicine are: increasing patient engagement and satisfaction; improving patient convenience; providing remote and rural patients with access to care; improving leverage of limited physician resources; reducing cost of care delivery; reducing hospital readmissions; improving specialist efficiency; providing access to new specialties; and providing 24/7 access to specialists. Of course, this hardly scratches the full extent of applications, and misses the main point that telemedicine brings healthcare of all kinds to the patient, rather than the patient going to the healthcare setting in hospitals and physician offices. MORE

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