Wednesday 3 October 2012

Telemedicine for Consumers



Telemedicine is really a marvel, bringing healthcare to both the farthest reaches of space as well as healthcare to your very own smart phone. Now is the time to continue to embrace the ways that having the best and brightest physicians at our beck and call can mean for our personal quality of life. Reducing healthcare costs remains one of the top reasons for adopting telemedicine strategies. Telemedicine has been shown to reduce hospital readmissions, reduce expensive Emergency Room visits and reduce the wages lost in travel time to/from distant medical offices. 

Telemedicine has been allowing people in distant towns to experience top-notch medical care for years, and now that same technology is being employed to allow physicians and facilities to expand into areas outside of their own offices. Regular people understand that telemedicine has the capacity to relieve stress on the family, save money and save time. 

Telemedicine includes a variety of services or applications, all of which rely on some type of electronic two-way communication between you and the doctor. This long distance practice of medicine traveled to even greater frontiers by assisting our soldiers with lifesaving triage medicine and, in very unique cases, beyond infinity when treating our astronauts. After traveling both far and wide, telemedicine is now becoming integrated into the ongoing operation of hospitals; specialty departments; private physician offices and your very home or place of business.