The continuing doctor shortage throughout the country and the growing prevalence of Internet use in people’s everyday lives are driving forces behind the recent surge in the popularity of telehealth services.
Telehealth, or telemedicine as it was previously known, enables patients and doctors to connect anytime anywhere online or via mobile phone. It also gives people in rural areas access to specialists without having to drive to the next major town. Recent improvements in sensory technology allows doctors can access patients’ vital signs in real time without having to schedule an office visit.
“For so many years if you were sick you had to go where the health care was,” says Roy Schoenberg, chief executive of Boson-based American Well. “For the very first time we’re brining health care to you and making it part of the medicine cabinet.”
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“For so many years if you were sick you had to go where the health care was,” says Roy Schoenberg, chief executive of Boson-based American Well. “For the very first time we’re brining health care to you and making it part of the medicine cabinet.”
Full text at:
http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2011/08/30/telehealth-doctor-will-see-now-wherever-are/
