Why patient-centered care means more telemedicine

Telemedicine will be more of an institution as healthcare becomes increasingly patient-centered, according to Jay Sanders, M.D., a former president of the American Telemedicine Association widely known as the "Father of Telemedicine." Telemedicine will revolutionize not only the patient-doctor relationship, but clinician-patient interaction in general, Sanders said in an interview with EHRIntelligence. "What the present technology affords the physician is an ability to better evaluate their patient in the patient setting, not in the doctor setting," Sanders said. Telemedicine has also "shined a light" on the obsolescence of laws and regulations prohibiting doctors from practicing in multiple states, according to Sanders. Read the full article at FierceHealthIT