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Telemedicine shows great promise for delivery of medical advice and lowering

costs for patients, but many hurdles still stand in the way. Shirley Svorni is author of the

new Cato report Liberating Telemedicine, we spoke last month.

We are used to consuming medical services from doctors in person waiting in a room.

I think there's probably a lot of lost man hours

in terms of people sitting in waiting rooms.

So what is the, what opportunity really does telemedicine provide and what are these concerns

about people on mass just switching to consuming medical services in this way?

Well, there's what you've talked about is the one that's the most popular kind of direct

to consumer, direct to patient care, where you just talk to your doctor on your cell phone but telemedicine has a lot of other

applications there's tele stroke which is like if you have a for a stroke

victim they can get you care really fast.

And they've used it for the military, for prisons, so they don't have to take prisoners,

they don't have to transport, they can treat them in the prison.

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