A seventy-four-year-old woman is brought to an emergency room of a rural hospital with stroke-like symptoms. The hospital does not have a stroke neurologist on staff and the closest one is several miles away. Within minutes, a two-way audio-video robot is brought to the patient’s bedside and on the other end of the video a neurologist conducts a virtual consultation. He concludes that the patient suffered a stroke and instructs emergency room staff to administer appropriate medication to minimize brain damage. The patient in this case made a full recovery — yet had the hospital staff waited for the neurologist to arrive and examine her in person, the consequences could have been much more dire.1
December 01, 2017
The Status of Telemedicine Reimbursement: States’ Efforts to Incentivize Providers to Utilize Telehealth Technologies
Benjamin P. Malerba, David E. Richman,and Ada Kozicz, Rivkin Radler LLP, Uniondale, NY
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