Benefits to telemedicine

• Improved Access – Bringing healthcare services to patients in remote locations.

• Cost Efficiencies ‐Telemedicine has been shown to reduce expensive hospital visits from chronic diseases. Online electronic medical records would increase productivity by having medical records on “the cloud” and multiple copies do not have to be replicated. Patients are monitored at the their own home environment.

• Patient Demand ‐ According to the American Telemedicine Association, patients want telemedicine. The ability to reduce travel time and cost of travel would increase comfort by staying at home.

These are different market areas which telemedicine reaches:

• Government
• Hospitals
• Rural Telemedicine
• Home Telehealth Care
• School Telehealth
• International Telemedicine
• Telepharmacy
• Disaster Telemedicine
• Telelearning
• All Medical Specialties