“French doctors will be entitled to bill the government for some medical services provided over the phone at the same rate that they invoice for services provided in their offices or hospitals, under new French legislation aimed at promoting the use of telemedicine and redressing regional inequities in the availability of medical services.
“This mode of exercise [telemedicine] is a response to the medical demography inequalities: where health care resources may be more rare, mainly in isolated areas (islands, rural areas, mountain areas, suburbs, prisons),” a spokesperson from France’s Direction générale de l’offre de soins (DGOS), writes in an email, while insisting on anonymity.”
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Ana Luísa Neves, Tiago Villanueva, CMAJ, 25 March 2011
