ScienceDaily (May 6, 2008) — A community-wide study in upstate New York found that nearly 28 percent of all visits to the pediatric emergency department could have been replaced with a more cost-effective Internet doctor's "visit," or telemedicine, according to investigators from the University of Rochester Medical Center.
"We learned that more than one in four local patients are using the pediatric emergency department for non-emergencies," said Kenneth McConnochie, M.D., M.P.H., the study's lead investigator and a professor of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester's Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong. "This mismatch of needs and resources is inefficient, costly and impersonal for everyone involved." (Full Story at sd)
Are you kidding me? As a pops, I would "telemedicine" every visit if I could. Why have I never even heard of this option, much less been given it?
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