Telemedicine could eradicate many expensive ED visits

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Mon, 05/05/2008 - 23:00

(University of Rochester Medical Center) A community-wide study in upstate New York found that nearly 28 percent of all visits to the pediatric emergency department could have been replaced with a more cost-effective Internet doctor's "visit," or telemedicine, according to investigators from the University of Rochester Medical Center.

The Rochester team will present these findings and more at this year's Pediatric Academic Society Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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