Lower Cost, Higher Quality Health Care Is Right At Our Fingertips

Forbes July 23, 2018
John C. Goodman

Telemedicine is making better care, quicker care and life-saving care available to more patients every day.

Thanks to technological breakthroughs, we don’t need to travel to a doctor’s office or a hospital for every medical need. We can get much of our care right in our own home.

“It used to be that you had to have very expensive equipment and you had to have T-1 lines to allow for video connections,” says Lauren Faison, Director of Telehealth at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH), a non-profit community hospital in Florida. “But now with any kind of Wi-Fi signal and a secure software system and a camera, you can provide health care virtually.”

The biggest obstacles? Government. Insurance companies. Employers. They pay...

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