Name: 远程医疗是医疗保健的未来吗（Is Telemedicine The Future Of Health Care?）
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The novel coronavirus pandemic has stretched health care systems to the

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brink. Covid-19, might be getting all the headlines, but patients are

still getting sick from other diseases and injuries.

And that's left doctors looking for other ways to treat them while

Telemedicine is broadly defined as the use of electronic communications

and software to monitor and treat patients in lieu of an inpatient visit.

Over the past decade, telehealth, a broader term used to define all

medical services and health education delivered digitally, has grown

According to IBISWorld, the industry's revenue has grown 34.7 percent from

The market size in 2019 was around 45 billion dollars, but it's projected

to grow to more than 175 billion dollars by 2026.

Despite the increase in revenue, Americans have been slow to adopt the

practice. According to a 2017 study, 82 percent of U.S.

Like all of American life, that changed with the novel coronavirus.

The number of Medicare patients using telehealth has increased from roughly

11,000 a week to more than 650,000 people a week.

It's led to a surge in usage for telemedicine companies such as Teladoc and

American Well. And video conferencing company Zoom, whose stock is up more

than 150 percent since the start of 2020.

Shares of Microsoft, which owns video conferencing software Skype and its

teams platform, are up more than 14 percent since the start of 2020.

Telemedicine visits surged to 50 percent in March and are on pace to reach

That's up from earlier predictions of 36 million America's health care

system has skipped the test run and jumped to using telemedicine as a

primary means of care during the coronavirus pandemic.

Here's how coronavirus could change the future of U.S.

Telemedicine dates back to the mid 20th century when radios were used to

In hospitals, the first usage was in the 1950s through a closed circuit

television link for psychiatric consultations.

In the last 30 years, telemedicine treatment has expanded to mental health,

stroke and patients with chronic diseases like asthma, diabetes or heart

failure. A number of research studies have found it to be an effective

alternative and satisfying for both the patient and provider.

Telehealth proponents have sold it as a solution for patients in rural

areas. Now they advocate it as a low cost and convenient option for tech

savvy millennials and busy parents as well.

A 2019 American Well study found that 66 percent of Americans are willing

to use telehealth, but only eight percent had already tried it.

Dr. Michael Barnett is an assistant professor of health policy and

Chan School of Public Health and a primary care physician at the Brigham

He's published papers about telemedicine adoption in the U.S.

There are many different reasons why the use been so low.

The first is that insurers are very worried that people would use too much

telemedicine if they covered it too easily.

And so there are lots of restrictions on the kind of telemedicine visit

So, for example, Medicare, which is the big federal government payer that

covers older adults and the disabled, they only pay for telemedicine if

And you also have to go to a specific kind of facility with a specific

kind of equipment and has to be a doctor that you've already seen.

In addition to that, in the U.S., I think people are really quite attached

Doctors or, also, their business model is very much tied to seeing

So they don't have a lot of incentive to offer telemedicine because there

isn't really a whole lot of patient demand.

So when the government announced that they would lift telehealth

restrictions for Medicare, it was a big deal.

Today, we're also announcing a dramatic expansion of our Medicare

Medicare patients can now visit any doctor by phone or video conference at

no additional cost, including with commonly used services like FaceTime

and Skype. The move paved the way for private insurers and others to waive

their restrictions. However, the new exceptions didn't void requirements

Telemedicine has been cast as a tool to protect medical professionals from

exposure to Covid-19, to help reduce reliance on personal protective

equipment and keep the vulnerable and healthy at home.

Now, coronavirus could boost telehealth interactions to one billion by the

end of 2020. Telemedicine companies like Teladoc and American Well have

seen a big boost in users during the coronavirus pandemic.

They've been able to meet demand thanks to most states temporarily

modifying their license requirements for doctors, meaning a doctor in one

state can diagnose a patient in another state.

That's led Credit Suisse listing Teladoc as one of their top 10 investment

Berenberg Capital Markets predicts the company's market opportunity can

And William Blair has called it the only clear beneficiary of the Covid-19

Even tech companies are entering the telemedicine space.

Here's CNBC reporter Cristina Farr on the growing overlap between health

and tech. So all of the major tech companies out in Silicon Valley have

been interested in telemedicine now for years and have been studying ways

Microsoft, for instance, has been developing chatbots, has collaboration

They also have video conferencing services.

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