Telemedicine is the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another through electronic communications to enhance patient’s clinical health status. Telemedicine today, is mixtures of teleconferencing, document-sharing, mobile technology, video chat and e-visits. This system was created to treat patients who were located in distant places, that where away from local health facilities. Doctors utilized telemedicine for various methods to treat patients with allergies, bronchitis, respiratory infection, sinusitis, UTIs, sports injuries and more. Services that telemedicine provides are primary care and specialist referral services, consumer medical and health, information, and medical education.
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Six percent of patients used telemedicine more than 12 months ago. Needless to say, 75 percent of patients or “less to moderate interested” in using telemedicine. Whereas, 68 percent of physicians believe it improves the continuity of care, 54 percent of physicians identified telemedicine as a barrier. Among patients from both assembly (those who tried telemedicine and those who have not), 16 percent would prefer to go into the ER for minor injuries, then having to access a healthcare provider to video-conference minor injuries. Meanwhile, 71 percent of patient would “strongly” or “slightly” seek care online for the minor medical issues, as well as it reducing the burden of ER staff and resources, according to the survey’s researchers (Leventhal, 2015). An average ER visit conferring from the National Institute of Health, stands at $2,168, telemedical visit stands at $40 to $50 a visit. Patients that have used telemedicine software, twenty-one percent of patient find that telemedicine is a lack of in person interaction, eight percent of patients feel uncomfortable making video calls, and six percent are unable to read body languages over video (Leventhal,