Telehealth is the Future to Transform Rural Healthcare
Published on : Wednesday 27-05-2020
The growth in the need and mandatory regulations for the quarantine process is a significant factor for the adoption and implementation of telehealth to order to reshape the healthcare sector. Considering the rural sector, telehealth is using frugally to minimize the risk of spread and increase awareness about the cause of COVID-19.
The rapid growth in the spread of the virus has urged the government and nearly hospital care providers to enhance and expand the telehealth services to speed up the recovery rate among the infectives. For instance, as per Frost and Sullivan, there is the growth of over 50% in the telehealth service owing to the outbreak of deadly virus across the United States. It is also predicted that the rise in human interaction fear is further estimated to cross the one billion revenue from the virtual care interactions or telehealth services by 2020.
There is a wide prevalence of the telehealth services in the market, but it is infrequently used in rural hospitals and clinics owing to the limited awareness and smart facilities to swap face-to-face office visits based on the telecommunicating platform. In the global market, their wide presence of people in the rural population compared to the urbanized population, which creates their key role in the deployment of healthcare services owing to meet the rectification in the spreading of coronavirus. However, the incorporation and adoption of telehealth services in the daily practice in underdeveloped rural healthcare are expected to create a kiosk among the smaller healthcare facilities providers due to budget constraints for the technology and presence of smaller target patient populations.
“The tech giants heavily invested in the technologies to reveal the plans to implementation of virtual care search at the ground level. This expected to create awareness through enabling the use of companies’ location technology to find nearby healthcare facilities offering telemedicine and other services”
New developments driving telehealth’s growth
The US Department of Health and Human Services regulated several regulations for the licensing and permission certificates to various out-of-state physicians to implement telehealth technology to treat patients across rural and urban sectors. Also, the relaxation of HIPPA-compliance penalties is increasing the health check-up tests only through virtual chat platforms such as Google Meet and FaceTime.
It is expected that the introduction of government-subsidized and private health insurance schemes is estimated to highly helped in reimbursements and expansion of healthcare services in the rural sectors to take the risk and long-term sustainable plans to cater to the demand from the smaller target patient rural populations with the high-cost for the telehealth technology. Thus, the rise in the launch of more reasonable financial reimbursement schemes for telehealth is further led to the worldwide market demand in the current coronavirus pandemic situation.