“Patient outcomes would improve–and at a much lower cost–if only the United States would embrace telemedicine, says Vijay Govindarajan, Professor of International Business at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
Govindarajan, writing in a recent Harvard Business Review blog post, points to a recent study of telemedicine at Lazarus Hospital in India that adopted telemedicine to treat patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD). For their rural patients, the hospital opted to use peritoneal dialysis (PD), which is performed in patients’ homes, rather than the more expensive hemodialysis (HD), which is provided at the hospital and which requires the patients to travel for treatment.”
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Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceHealthIT, 24 April 2012
