A review article on the State of Telehealth, has recently been published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The authors define telehealth as "the provision of health care remotely by means of a variety of telecommunication tools, including telephones, smartphones, and mobile wireless devices, with or without a video connection."The article explores the trends of telehealth, its costs and limitations (together with possible solutions) and where the technology could go in the future. "The growth of telehealth over the next decade and beyond will have profound implications for health care delivery and medicine. The provision of care at a distance could help address longstanding concerns about the distribution and number of physicians and provide greater flexibility to both patients and clinicians with respect to their location and availability."
E. Ray Dorsey, Eric Topol. (2016). The New England Journal of Medicine, 375, 154-161. doi:10.1056/NEJMra1601705. Available via CIAP for NSW Health employees.
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