“What we’ve seen now from the primary healthcare community is more and more acceptance of telehealth and
digital healthcare services as legitimate ways to access primary healthcare,” Mr Skimin told Sky News Australia.
Tele-health has its benefits, but it misses more in personal contact. The doctor misses too much info from not being able to touch, smell and see what is happening with the patient.
Why go to a place where there are people that are sick, to 'cure' an illness, where you might pick up multiple others?
Nailed, a Telehealth Appointment (online, with paid advice), with a Dr and patient, with the Dr providing correct and useful information can progress the health of the patient more progressively, than having to get the run around for face-to-face appointments. Just my thoughts.
No mention of positive health outcomes for patients. Just another layer of health care administrators clipping the ticket.
They sure do ! Teli-Health and E:Scipts etc are a fundamental way to help our underpaid, understaffed and over worked GP;s address Australian's medical issues!! Why? Because apart from Abbott nobody from all sides of politics gives a Damned..