“Getting docs engaged and on-board with telehealth may take more than education. It may take cold, hard cash. That’s the object lesson this week from a story about one segment of England’s burgeoning telehealth/remote patient monitoring program.
Not getting physician buy-in has forced one primary care trust–the local care coordinating agency in the UK–to have to pay physicians to try out telehealth technology, according to Britain’s Management in Practice (MiP). It’s particularly bad news, given that the country is in the middle of a massive expansion of its telehealth and remote patient monitoring programs.”
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Sara Jackson, FierceHealthIT, 18 January 2012
