Question

HCI315

Telehealth and Telemedicine

Question:

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.

Answer 1

The major barriers of implementation of Telemedicine for physicians;

• Challenges of regulations that vary state-by-state
• Telemedicine credentialing process being very complicated
• Insufficient capital expenditure
• Lack of reimbursements