Another is Telehealth Silos Health Care?

When we say health care operates in silos, we mean cardiologist, psychiatrist and physician the patient has no idea what the other is doing. Or that the individual departments in a hospital have no idea what the other is doing. Or your new doctor has no idea what the ancient physicians did to you, and you have to fill a sheet of a notebook in the waiting room with the information of decades-old just remember or even understand when ancient doctors said.

"Connected Care" is supposed to break down these silos. Telehealth is doing? Probably not. Let me illustrate with an alternative history of consumer banking. Suppose that (sometime in the 1970s) that you no longer have to go to a branch during business hours bankers to withdraw cash. 24/7 could do it in a machine called an ATM. However, ATMs operated would be different banks branches. You would have to have at least one account at a bank with branches and another account at a bank with ATMs. That would not be very efficient. However, that seems to be how telehealth is evolving.

Teladoc, Inc. will release its quarterly and annual earnings after the close of trading today. Founded in 2002, it is the longest established telemedicine provider Teladoc the US company Your video is to offer consultations with doctors and psychotherapists. Companies like Teladoc have attracted a lot of funds in recent years.

In a recent report, Accenture estimates the number of (what he calls) "on-demand" service companies health increased four in 2010 to 42 in 2014, while investment grew at an annual compound growth of 224 per hundred. During the period, demand for health care companies have attracted nearly three quarters of a billion dollars of investment, of which $ 639 million was in primary care.

Teladoc has a number of interesting competitors: Doctor demand, Sherpaa, live and MD are the general services that have attracted venture funding. There are also special services such as dermatology or TALKSPACE Spruce for talk therapy. There is even the Doc IV, offering a quick online consultation with a doctor, followed by a showing mobile nurse to administer intravenous hydration with medication and vitamins. The IV Doc happily promotes its service as a therapy for hangovers, among other ailments.

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