Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Doctors Will Make Web Calls in Hawaii - NYTimes.com

Hawaii is particularly well suited for online medicine because the islands are remote, it takes time to travel among them and it is difficult for the state to recruit doctors to rural areas, said Mike Stollar, vice president of marketing for the Hawaii Medical Service Association.However, some critics of doctor visits via webcam worry that doctors will miss important symptoms if they do not see patients in person. Others doubt that the poor and uninsured will have the broadband connection and webcams to use the service. .
Doctors Will Make Web Calls in Hawaii - NYTimes.com

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