Survey shows that American doctors support telemedicine, but practical applications are scarce

Release date: 2016-01-25

A survey of 1557 physicians in the United States just published in 2014 showed a clear disconnect between telemedicine support rates and actual use of telemedicine technology. 78% of respondents believe that telemedicine can improve patients' access to medical resources, but only 15% of doctors actually use telemedicine services.

The American Family Doctors Association published the results of this survey. Their broad definition of telemedicine is "using electronic communication to exchange medical information between the two places to improve patient health."

78% of respondents reported that they believe that telemedicine can improve patients' access to medical resources, and 68% of doctors believe that telemedicine improves medical continuity. At the same time, they also said that sometimes telemedicine also caused some obstacles to medical care. The biggest obstacle is the lack of training, and 54% of doctors agree with this. Secondly, 53% of doctors believe that telemedicine lacks humanistic care. Ranked third and fourth are equipment costs and potential liability issues, which are 45% and 41% respectively.

The author of the article wrote: “The use of telemedicine is still at an early stage of development. Many of the factors that can be used in a wide range of barriers may be addressed with policy changes. To address the two major barriers identified by the survey, we can increase training through health product providers. At the same time, insurance will increase the proportion of reimbursement for telemedicine services, and it will increase or decrease the new revenue model for telemedicine services."

Interestingly, even if only 15% of doctors use telemedicine, the ratio of telemedicine is higher than that of medical consumers. Of the 3,769 readers interviewed, only 9% used telemedicine to solve their own minor illnesses. Of the people in telemedicine, 90% said the telemedicine experience was better than going to the clinic. At the same time, 45% of respondents said they were reluctant to use telemedicine two or three years ago.


Original link: http://mobihealthnews.com/content/survey-15-percent-family-physicians-used-telemedicine-2014

Source: Kexun Medical Network

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