Telemedicine Barriers and How to Overcome Them
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In a Word document, prepare a response to the following question, and submit to your professor. Your response should be 1-2 pages, approximately 250-300 words.
While patients and physicians agree that virtual healthcare holds great promise for transforming care delivery, some physicians appear reluctant to implement telemedicine technologies into their practice, according to Deloitte 2018 survey of US physicians. In your opinion, what are the major barriers of this reluctance, and how to overcome them.
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Virtual healthcare refers to the use of online communication such as video conferencing by patients and doctors to administer treatment. It has brought a lot of advantages such as patient satisfaction and convenience in delivering healthcare services. Some of the concerns that have led to reluctance to its adoption by physicians are issues of reimbursement, cybersecurity concerns, costly telecommunication equipment, and complex legal licensing requirements. However, few strategies have been adopted to solve these barriers and ensure physicians embrace telemedicine practices in their practice. Physicians fear not being able to provide the same healthcare services through virtual…
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