Article from Mobihealthnews.com (@Connected Health: Verizon highlights partners) briefly describing the benefits and cost savings from tele-medicine. For example, Verizon claims that "IT healthcare solutions and services can help organizations save close to $165 billion annually, according to the carrier. The carrier also cites a report from the Insight Research Corporation that estimates $800 million per year could be saved if more treatment was shifted from physician’s offices to home health visits."
Of course, tele-medicine and the applications bring revenue to that Verizon (and other carriers), thus the cost savings amounts should be viewed sceptically. However, in general tele-medicine solutions nearly always provide cost savings over clinic and hospital visits. And they also provide an additional level freedom that improves quality of life.
I want to add this link that sounds a significant concern regarding the supply and demand for communications bandwidth in the near future. Here's the link: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS121240+21-Oct-2009+PRN20091021. The title of the article is: "Are we ready for the Exabyte Tsunami? (Here's a link to explain an exabyte: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exabyte).
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