- reduce travel time and number of trips to medical appointments
- reduce travel costs: such as gas, meals, accommodations, parking, air fare
- reduces trips in heavy traffic and bad weather
- reduces time away from work and families
- increase rural patients access to specialist and advance health care
- may allow for easier access to second opinion
- allows patients opportunity to receive care at home vs. hospitalization
- receive care in community and with those they know
- quicker access to specialists
- allows for face to face interaction with specialist
- increased patient satisfaction
- can avoid transfers of care from rural to urban centres
- reduces/eliminates long wait in waiting rooms to see specialists and exposure to infectious diseases
- improvement in health with closer monitoring
Limitations
- access to equipment to facilitate video teleconferencing
- availability of technology applications - is high speed Internet available in their location
- experience of use with technology
For a complete list of benefits and limitations with references click on the following link:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AWPdIyKwA_pBZGZqYjN2aGJfMmNoZnJkbWQ2&hl=en
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