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Potential disadvantages of virtual health care
Telemedicine has been a hard sell in some areas.
- Many rural clinics and community hospitals fear that their already inadequate medical staffing and the revenues generated from on-site procedures will be further diminished by remote medicine.
- Old and poor patients who may need care the most can't afford smartphones or broadband connectivity.
- Until recently, many people were unaware that the service existed, while others didn't trust an anonymous doctor.
- Many people want to be in the physical presence of their physicians, believing the quality of virtual care is inferior.
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Telemedicine and telehealth involve remote-health-care technologies and services, known as "virtual care."
While virtual care played some role in the health-care industry, 2020 lead people to discover its benefits and shortcomings.
Doctor's are not sold on telehealth, either.
- According to a survey, only one in three specialists thinks virtual care will benefit their practice.
- Doctors are concerned about the diagnostic and therapeutic limitations of seeing patients on a screen.
- Tele-doctors cou...
Telehealth doesn't replace the brick-and-mortar visit, but it complements it.
It's one thing to offer telecare to a patient you know, but another to diagnose during a virtual first visit. A tele-doctor who misdiagnoses a stomach ache that is indeed stomach cancer has the sam...
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- The new virus has forced the entire world in an unprecedented lockdown.
- In these times of a looming unknown future, existential fear and separation from friends and family, millions are resorting to online help to deal with their anxieties.Â
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