Quotes about Telemedicine from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "With telemedicine, patients can "see" leading specialists without onerous all-day drives across rural landscapes; without telemedicine, those same patients either make the drives, delay the encounter until they can, or forego the service altogether. Small wonder HCFA and the health insurers have not rushed to figure out a way to regulate and pay for the bulk of telemedicine services.
By contrast, HCFA and the managed care industry might be happy to figure out a way to reimburse e-visits; unlike telemedicine, e-visits may prove to reduce total costs."- J.D. Kleinke, Oxymorons: The Myth of a U.S. Health Care System (Get the book.) "Because telemedicine represented a significant improvement in access and quality of care for patients in remote locations, it also represented induced costs for their insurers. With telemedicine, patients can "see" leading specialists without onerous all-day drives across rural landscapes; without telemedicine, those same patients either make the drives, delay the encounter until they can, or forego the service altogether. Small wonder HCFA and the health insurers have not rushed to figure out a way to regulate and pay for the bulk of telemedicine services." - J.D. Kleinke, Oxymorons: The Myth of a U.S. Health Care System (Get the book.) |
| "Closer to home, some cities in the United States are using telemedicine to allow school nurses to consult with physicians, and telemedicine is being used in correctional facilities so that prisoners do not have to be transported to health centers.
The city of Baltimore, Maryland, is conducting a study using telemedicine to link patients in ambulances to a neurologist at the University of Maryland Medical Center to help stroke patients get the treatment they need as soon as possible." - Garcia Oz, Sharyn Kolberg, The Healthy High-tech Body (Get the book.) "In Greenland, hospitals and towns in the country's twenty largest settlements will be linked by telemedical technology by the year 2002, making telemedicine available to over 50 percent of the population. The United Nations is sponsoring a telemedicine program that will allow children's hospitals around the world to consult with American hospitals and specialists to help children who are catastrophically ill." - Garcia Oz, Sharyn Kolberg, The Healthy High-tech Body (Get the book.) "The only possible way to save her life was through the use of telemedicine. Because she was able to communicate, via computer, with doctors thousands of miles away, Dr. Nielsen and her colleagues were able to save her life. Had this technology not existed, the doctor would surely have perished long before she could get out of that frozen land. Simply put, telemedicine is the use of telecommunications to provide medical information and services. This technology enables doctors to communicate with specialists at long distances, as well as allowing patients to communicate with their doctors." - Garcia Oz, Sharyn Kolberg, The Healthy High-tech Body (Get the book.) |
 "It's called telemedicine or whimsically, the "300-mile stethoscope."
The idea is that doctors can examine patients using closed-circuit two-way televisions, interactive video hookups, electronic stethoscopes, long-distance x-ray transmissions. The new house call is made by the doctor's electronic double, a cybernetic Dop-pelgdnger. According to one supporter of the approach, telemedicine is "the perfect use of the technology" because patients "get the same kind of care they'd get if they were sitting next to me"—minimal, disinterested, technologized."- Richard Leviton, Physician: Medicine and the Unsuspected Battle for Human Freedom (Get the book.) |
| "Small wonder HCFA and the health insurers have not rushed to figure out a way to regulate and pay for the bulk of telemedicine services.
By contrast, HCFA and the managed care industry might be happy to figure out a way to reimburse e-visits; unlike telemedicine, e-visits may prove to reduce total costs. This, of course, is exactly why physicians, then, will not embrace them as alternatives. Until reimbursement to physicians for providing an e-visit is worked out, they will continue to regard such alternatives warily, as yet another threat to their income." - J.D. Kleinke, Oxymorons: The Myth of a U.S. Health Care System (Get the book.) |
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