Nationwide telemedicine networks are essential for successful health care reform in the USA
03.07.09 | Posted by: WSDAN
Experts in various fields of medicine, public health, and industry propose that telemedicine, or information technology enhanced health care, must be a core component of a viable health care reform strategy in the USA.
They consider in a White Paper (‘National Telemedicine Initiatives: Essential to Healthcare Reform’) that well-designed telemedicine systems have proven value for improving access to quality health care, providing effective clinical decision support and medication prescribing, promoting patient-centered care through community- and home-based resources, enhancing chronic disease management, and promoting adoption of healthy lifestyle choices and self-care, and containing cost inflation. Telemedicine offers substantial benefits that greatly exceed its cost.