Virtual Health Care is a quickly growing segment of the health care industry because it provides real and measurable benefits to patients.
Virtual Health Care has been cited as being particularly helpful in rural areas, where the shortage of healthcare providers had led to a lack of accessibility to both basic healthcare and specialty care.
Through Virtual Health Care, patients can to get access to healthcare faster, which is a leading factor in improved patient engagement and better outcomes.
As the healthcare industry is being driven towards value-based care, the use of virtual health technologies results in many positive outcomes including: fewer hospital re-admissions, more faithful following of prescribed courses of treatment, and faster recovery than that of patients not receiving remote intervention.
Virtual Health Care allows hospitals to create hub-and-spoke networks to provide each other with support. By easily sharing their expertise outside their own institutions, doctors can offer incredible value to their medical colleagues and those colleagues patients.
Remote medical technology is an increasingly effective way to administer preventive medicine and manage chronic conditions.