Determining if Telehealth Can Reduce Health System Costs: Scoping Review
Journal of Medical Internet Research2020Vol. 22(10), pp. e17298–e17298
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Abstract
Health services considering implementing telehealth should be motivated by benefits other than cost reduction. The available evidence has indicated that although telehealth provides overwhelmingly positive patient benefits and increases productivity for many services, current evidence suggests that it does not routinely reduce the cost of care delivery for the health system.
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