Telemedicine solutions come in a variety of forms which serve us in a growing number of ways. The technology and its uses are advancing at lightning speed allowing us to keep you out of Doctor’s Offices and Hospital ER’s avoiding crowed waiting rooms. It not only serves to protect you from the spread of infectious diseases, but saves money, time and travel. It is available to rural populations where there may not be a Doctor or Hospital for many miles and to underserved populations where there are not enough resources to go around and wait times to see a Healthcare Professional are out of control. Telemedicine can now effectively serve your entire family whenever and wherever you need it. Furthermore, officially recognized for its efficacy and cost effectiveness, by the Government and private insurance, alike, they have made it available to all by lowering or even waving co-pays and deductibles to encourage its use.

The diversity of Telemedicine has grown immensely. Together, one- or two-way audio, audio-video, real time Electronic Monitoring & AI (Artificial Intelligence) have empowered us to definitively treat patients almost anywhere in the world. It has enabled us to do real time monitoring of temperature, pulse, blood pressure, O2 Saturation, serum glucose, patient movements, bladder & bowel control, eating habits and more. It has the ability to profoundly affect the quality of care and human life. It makes healthcare more efficient and affords a huge savings through early detection, identification & diagnosis of problems before they get out of control and so does the cost of care. We will actually save money by utilizing this new technology in an aggressive, straight forward and pragmatic way. By using technology to proactively address the most common Healthcare issues of the chronically ill and elderly (65 and older) we can spend our healthcare dollars more wisely and actually realize a decrease in the per capita cost of care. It is projected that in the next 10 years 50 cents of every dollar spent by the Federal Government (not counting interest) will be on the elderly. Spent in a positive way we can actually save some of this money! As an example, through monitoring we can simultaneously improve life for the elderly and bed ridden by avoiding painful and extremely costly issues like skin breakdown (decubitus ulcers) and sepsis. Besides the human beings, the beneficiaries of this technology are countless and include Hospitals, Nursing Homes, ACLF’s, Home Health, the underserved, and private homes. We should no longer consider this care in terms of cost, but in terms of savings! Properly executed and administered Telehealth can slow or even reverse healthcare costs while providing even better care to those sectors where we spend the most, by bringing an efficiency to the practice of Medicine that was previously only imagine