[To my mind, this could lead to less personalized medicine. There is nothing like face-to-face communication, especially in health care. It's part of the healing process.]
by Rajiv Leventhal, healthcare-informatics.com,
25 September 2015
Emerging technologies—in the form of telemedicine, mobile health (mHealth) tools, and connected health devices—may help reverse the current trend of physician burnout, according to a recent report from QuantiaMD, a Waltham, Mass.-based social network for physicians.
As physicians show increasing interest in incorporating telemedicine to their practice, they’re looking to their peers who have been the early adopters in this space to offer advice. As such, 62 percent of physician respondents say they’re not currently offering virtual visits to patients but are “interested in learning more,” while 60 percent of primary care physician respondents say that if a nearby hospital offered them a chance to consult with specialists via video, it would increase their likelihood of referring patients to that hospital, according to the report—a compilation of different surveys from throughout the year.
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Emerging technologies—in the form of telemedicine, mobile health (mHealth) tools, and connected health devices—may help reverse the current trend of physician burnout, according to a recent report from QuantiaMD, a Waltham, Mass.-based social network for physicians.
As physicians show increasing interest in incorporating telemedicine to their practice, they’re looking to their peers who have been the early adopters in this space to offer advice. As such, 62 percent of physician respondents say they’re not currently offering virtual visits to patients but are “interested in learning more,” while 60 percent of primary care physician respondents say that if a nearby hospital offered them a chance to consult with specialists via video, it would increase their likelihood of referring patients to that hospital, according to the report—a compilation of different surveys from throughout the year.