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Telehealth in Europe - From Pilot to Mainstream?
Ovum, Dec 2010, Pages: 43
Introduction
As healthcare providers struggle with acute budget restraints, there is a strong case for the deployment of telemonitoring to remedy the situation. This has helped with the identification of changes in patients’ well-being at an earlier stage, and has subsequently lead to a decrease in the number of emergency room visits and the average length of hospitalization.
Features and benefits
- A mix of external and internal factors leads to an explosion of costs for the provision of healthcare.
Highlights
The major stakeholders for the provision of telehealth: payers (regional/national authorities, private health insurers), medical staff (doctors and nurses), and patients and governments have not until now been sufficiently aware of telehealth.As the pressures on healthcare payers to close the gaping hole between decreasing contributions and rising healthcare expenditures, it is important to explore more efficient ways of healthcare delivery. Available evidence based on pilots into the deployment of telehealth suggests that it has the potential to cut costs.
Your key questions answered
- Understand how demographic as well as economic factors change the funding basis for healthcare provision.- Gain insight into the drivers and barriers for telemonitoring- Examples of telemonitoring pilots across Europe.
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