Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference

Implications

Healthcare

• when and where you need it,
• by people you know and trust

Notes:

But I mostly think its worth it because of what telemed has to offer. Telemed has potential to enable healthcare when and where you need it, by people you know and trust. The patient site for telemed could just as easily be a retail setting as a child care center.

The trusted primary care clinician providing the telemed visit could be anywhere with internet access. Thus, it's clearly up to clinicians ... and health policy decision makers ... to determine whether telemed will be used to enhance continuity of care as well as provide ready access.