Published January 9, 2018 | Version v1
Journal article Open

Telemedicine Needs to Blur Towards Connected Health

  • 1. Gerència Territorial de la Catalunya Central, Catalan Health Institute, Sant Fruitós de Bages, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2. Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar Foundation, Ar-Rayyan, Qatar

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Despite telemedicine programmes have been widely implemented globally and millions of dollars spent on them, the future of telemedicine may lay in a more affordable and sustainable one. To assess the actual state of telemedicine we conducted Twitter polls using questions from previously used questionnaires. In a population where telemedicine was expected to enjoy big support, a significant number of twitter users responding to the poll found that telemedicine was not as good as traditional care.

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