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Telemedicine, a really reliable remedy?

With the health crisis, teleconsultation seems to have become the spearhead of our health system. However, in terms of regulating practices or regulating software, everything remains to be done.

More than a million teleconsultations each week at the height of the pandemic, and more than 50,000 doctors registered on telemedicine platforms: connected health tools have seen their use explode over the past year and a half. Should we see this as a perfect opportunity to rethink patient care, as the country is increasingly dotted with “medical deserts”? — Eure, for example, has only one doctor left for 2,700 patients… Is this also a way of relieving congestion in the saturated emergency services, now welcoming 20 million people a year, i.e. two times more than in 2010? Alongside justified emergencies, there are all those that are just “felt” by patients in need of attention and reassurance.

« Or, explains Dr Pierre Simon, founder of the French Society of Telemedicine, only 20% of these are ultimately hospitalized. » Remote monitoring is also very useful for those who have serious but treated conditions that only require simple monitoring. A study conducted in Basse-Normandie shows, for example, that remote monitoring of patients suffering from heart failure has saved 140 days of hospitalization, or 300 euros per day and per patient. Digital, definitely, could well be the providential solution for an increasingly challenged health system…

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