Telemedicine.
Telemedicine refers to healthcare services delivered remotely over telecommunications infrastructure. It promises efficiency gains against a backdrop of rising costs and limited access, especially in rural areas of developing countries. Estimates put the 2017 telemedicine market at nearly 30 billion dollars and Grand View Research expects it to almost quadruple to 113.1 billion dollars by 2025.
In low- to mid-income countries medical professional associations will self-regulate telemedicine until national standards are established.
Telemedicine will be used beyond providing patient services -- especially for research and for training health workers and caregivers.
Telemedicine will increasingly connect health workers to one another to offer expert-to-expert advice as well as doctors to patients.
As connectivity improves telemedicine will expand beyond diagnosis to monitoring the health status and compliance of connected patients.
