Digital Patients: Digital Care, Denmark
February 16, 2010 | Terry Sharrer
Denmark’s national health system is tax-financed, even if perceived to be “free.” For that reason, the Danish government has long promoted telemedicine as an effective, efficient approach to health care. Today, virtually all family practice physicians, most hospitals, nearly all pharmacies and every other sort of provider offer services to patients at home, using laptop computers with webcams, digital devices, and cell phones. Denmark is the “most wired” (and wireless) country in the world for healthcare, and it consistently outperforms the United States on measures like heart disease deaths, obesity, and spending per person. MORE