How Telemedicine Can Bend the Cost Curve

Arundhati Parmar

Telemedicine holds great potential as a way to treat and monitor patients effectively in the continuum of care as they move beyond the walls of a hospital into their home.

An analysis by PricewaterhouseCoopers shows that it also has the capacity to reduce the cost of managing certain chronic diseases. The infographic below based on a PwC report shows that introducing virtual care into the mix in diabetes management can significantly lower costs.

Arundhati Parmar is senior editor at MD+DI. Reach her at [email protected] and on Twitter @aparmarbb