Benefits Of Telemedicine

Register to read the introduction… Just like any other cutting edge technology, telemedicine will be costly to implement in the beginning. The connectivity and the hardware of the system will be expensive, but as the project moves forward these costs will be reduced. Telemedicine will in the future reduce the cost for health care. As for the patients, telemedicine will allow them to have access to the specialist that they once were not able to obtain. People in underprivileged, rural, and geographically isolated region will be able to receive quality health care without delay or the trauma of traveling to a new region.2 …show more content…
Many of the barriers and obstacles in telemedicine have been resolved and the final paper will site articles and methods utilized to solve these issues. Telemedicine covers a very broad spectrum of medicine that includes emergency medicine, teleradiology, teleophthalmology, telepsychiatry, and care in the home and other non-clinical sites. In the final paper these different applications of telemedicine will be discussed with real life studies and examples. Many of these studies are done at the University of Southern California Advanced Bio Telecommunications & BioInformatics Center (USC-ABBC) and a more in depth look at their projects will be