Medical experts say coronavirus COVID-19 and Ebola outbreaks show that robotic medicine can help fight infectious disease, but the goal needs to be applications in everyday health care.
, not just in medical contexts but for general use as more businesses instruct employees to work remotely.
Virtual visits are booming at Providence. The nonprofit health-care system completed roughly 100,000 virtual visits in 2019. In 2012, Providence performed a few hundred telemedical visits a year, and it has been growing at a rapid pace — from 12,000 in 2016 to 41,000 visits in 2018 to over 100,000 last year. That number does not include the use of telemedicine in ICU specifically.
Stanford also has seen a rise in telemedicine visits in its primary care department. "It is a significant number," Damrose said. "People take time off from jobs to go wait for 45 minutes. It's disruptive to daily life and that's why compliance is particularly hard to maintain among low-income communities. Even if it were cost neutral it would be a massive step forward in patient engagement," Van Biesen said.
"Infectious disease prevention may not be the motivating fiscal factor for health systems, but telemedicine and rural health absolutely could be," Riek said.
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