Telehealth Saves Money and Paves the Way for Innovation
The health industry's gradual shift toward telehealth technology is helping connect health professionals with patients around the country, elevating the quality of care to a new level. Global health leaders see telehealth as the best hope for bringing about a more collaborative and cost-efficient health environment, according to a recent CISCO and Princeton Survey Research Associates International survey.
The survey highlighted three main areas of concern for the health industry:
"Providing equitable access, maximizing efficiency, and consistently providing quality care. Telehealth has proven to be the best hope for achieving gains in all three areas, by enhancing the pathways to care currently used by professionals."
As more medical professionals adopt telehealth measures, the ability to expand care to lower income areas is inspiring a new generation of doctors and nurses. Innovation and collaboration are on the rise, helping to address ever-present challenges in the field.
Telehealth will also reduce wasted time in the health industry, saving billions of dollars. According to the report, poor communication between health professionals costs $12 billion per year:
"In the study, researchers from the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems quantified the economic impact of communication inefficiencies in U.S. hospitals for three categories of waste. Ten percent of the economic burden was attributed to wasted physician time, 36 percent to nursing time, and 54 percent tied to difficulties with care coordination and discharge planning that result in longer-than-necessary patient stays in hospitals."
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