- Telemedicine will help to Reduce Health Care Costs: The cost of health care is quite enormous for any economy. But with telemedicine, such huge cost will be reduced drastically. Consider the cost of transferring or transporting a patient from one hospital to another, with a considerable long distance. Consider the cost of transporting a patient abroad for medical treatment. Also, consider the cost of transporting a specialist from one country to another, just to deliver health care. With telemedicine, such expenses will be averted.
An obvious benefit of telemedicine is the potential for transportation cost savings, such as the potential for saving a portion of the millions spent annually on patient automobile travel expenses, emergency air evacuations or other forms of transporting patients across the large expanses of rural communities
- Telemedicine Saves Time: It is obvious that telemedicine saves time. Consider the time that would have been used on transporting a patient from a rural area to an urban area to consult a medical specialist. With telemedicine, such time that would have been spent on transporting a patient from a rural to urban area is saved together with prompt delivery of the required health care service.
- Telemedicine helps in accurate of diagnosis: Telemedicine also helps in accurate diagnosis of patients. With telemedicine, there is reduction of medical error. Two heads are better than one. WIth telemedicine, doctors can easily get a second opinion from another doctor in another location. Such second opinion helps in maintaing acurate diagnosis of patients. such accuracy on diagnosis will help the doctor to save costs to both the patients and the hospitals by using the correct medicines without any trial.
- Telemedicine Increase Efficiency: With all the above mentioned benefits of telemedicine, there is increase efficiency.
- Telemedicine enhance medical learning. Telemedicine provides health care providers, patients and families with the opportunity to participate in health care education especially on the latest medical advances without having to travel long distances.