The Science of Telemedicine: A Lifesaver in the Right Place
April 30, 2015
(Wired) – Telemedicine—doctors talking to patients or other doctors via video—may yet find a place as a tool in mainstream health care. Physicians are already finding important uses for it. But it has one critical limitation: contact. “You can’t feel a joint and see whether it’s warm and lax,” says Thomas Nesbitt, a physician and a founder of the telemedicine program at UC Davis. “But we’re less reliant on touch as a diagnostic tool now, thanks to imaging.”