Telemedicine can change the healthcare landscape. It can become a cash cow for your hospital. Study finds 68% adoption by next year and savings upto $6 billion.

1. By
Ango Mark
MedicalBillingStar
Is telemedicine the new face of
healthcare innovation?

2. Is telemedicine an answer to the
healthcare financial future?
Yes, it has the possibility for
transforming outcomes for
certain patients such as the
ones with chronic illness.

3. Telemedicine can also help in Sepsis, the
top issue of the healthcare services!
• Randy Moore president of Mercy Virtual says
“Turnkey telesepsis can speed up the
recognitions and treatment, enabling his
hospital to decrease mortality by 50% and cut
costs per case by over $8000.

4. What if telemedicine matures? What are
the future aspects?
• Smaller healthcare systems that don’t have the
capital to make telemedicine feasible may join
hands with bigger healthcare entities.
• Providing healthcare services outside institution
can lead to increased revenue, such as
telestroke treatment for non hospital systems.

5. Telemedicine could get US companies $6
billion of savings annually!
• 37% of the employers who responded to the
survey said they can offer telemedicine services
by 2015.
• 34% of the respondents they consider to offer
services by 2016/2017.

6. Cont…
• 22% of the survey respondents currently offer
telemedicine consultations.
• The overall report suggests that the percentage
of employers offering telemedicine services is
expected to grow from 22% to 37% which
represents a 68% increase.

7. 3 question which still haunts every
individual in healthcare services:
• How to change the patient and physician mindset?
• Will a healthcare plan show its willingness to
integrate and reimburse this service and if yes
then what do you think?
• How many healthcare services you know or will
adopt a virtual centre for telemedicine?

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