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Physician presents Tabendi Healthcare as a telemedicine option to reduce unnecessary ER visits
Summary
A physician presenter said wider telemedicine access, offered through Tabendi Healthcare, could help reduce unnecessary emergency-room visits, lower health-care costs, and improve access; he provided the service website and urged broader adoption of telemedicine.
Speaker 1, an internal medicine physician, told attendees that wider use of telemedicine can reduce unnecessary emergency-room visits and help lower health-care costs. "When there's no urgency or emergency, ... you can see your primary care physician," he said, arguing that better remote access would keep patients out of ERs and cut costs.
He described a mismatch between population growth and the supply of hospitals and clinicians, saying…
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