Analysis by Audrey Kinsella Headlines like these are becoming increasingly, alarmingly, common: “Report: Telemedicine Increases Death Rate” [in the UK’s Online Pharma Times, 6/5/13] “Unintended Consequences: How Telehealth Can Fail to Manage Chronic Diseases” [University of Texas blog post by a nursing school professor] Both pieces imply that telehealthcare can actually worsen a patient’s condition. […]
Effect of telehealth on use of secondary care and mortality: findings from the Whole System Demonstrator cluster randomized trial. Philips Telehealth was one of three technology providers selected to provide telehealth systems to the Whole System Demonstrator program, sponsored by Britain’s National Health Service. Results were strongly positive, and strongly contradicted two recent, widely criticized […]
