I believe going forward we will see more and more healthcare delivered over the Internet and via electronic communication technologies, whether email or text messaging. There are a number of reasons why this makes sense. First, this is how a significant subset of the population wants to communicate. Second, people are just too busy to take a day or half-day off of work to go to a doctor’s office. Third, there are some issues people are more comfortable discussing anonymously or at least not in person. And, finally, these types of communications are much less costly than traditional office based health care.
Now if we can only get doctors and health insurance companies to agree that this is something that should be provided and paid for, it would be great.
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