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- Telehealth Medicine has made it much easier for consumers to access care from trained medical professionals.
- "An estimated 12% of direct-to-consumer telehealth visits replaced visits to other providers, and 88% represented new utilization"
- Telehealth Medicine also reduces the cost of higher acute levels of care. For example, someone with access to telehealth may not need to have to visit a hospital emergency room, which would drive up costs.
- "Without telemedicine service, 27.9% of parents would have visited the ED; a projected savings to the Florida healthcare system of approximately $113.9 million based on comparative data from the Florida ER Utilization Report"

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- Telehealth Medicine allows for consumers to access healthcare on their own time and convenience; however, it is not possible to do this completely on your own.
- Telehealth requires some form of software and hardware in order to access a provider. In today's age, most people have a cell phone they can use to get access to the telehealth portal.

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- One area that telehealth medicine can improve healthcare dramatically is in communication between providers.
- Depending on the area you live in, it could take weeks or months to get in to see a specialist. With telehealth, you can see a specialist in real time. Additionally, your primary care physician can share his notes in real time with a specialist, who you can then see shortly after.
- Increasing access to specialists with decrease the amount of diseases that could be prevented if people had access to physicians before they ended up in the emergency room.

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- Telehealth currently gives people access to providers in different places. You can access telehealth from a hospital, nursing home and even your bedroom.
- The future, however, is not only the access but the treatment Imagine being able to be treated or monitored by a physician who is not in the room.
- With the advancement of cell phone cameras, heart rate monitors and 5G cell service, physicians will be able to monitor and treat patients via telehealth medicine.