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How Can Telemedicine Help? Telemedicine (Matusitz and Breen, 2007) is useful when: - Patients live far away from medical facilities - Patients live in remote communities - Patients are housebound - Patients are easily stressed in a formal medical environment - Patients have difficulty finding transport to medical facilities - Patients are unable to deal with long waiting periods - Patients or doctors are at high risk of infection (e.g. lowered immunity, communicable diseases and drug-resistant infections such as MRSA/methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus) Telemedicine (Matusitz and Breen, 2007) can also: - Reduce the number of outpatient visits - Reduce the overall cost of healthcare - Reduce the risk of disease or parasites spreading - Make medical information sharing and education easier - Make healthcare more accessible to more people While doctors cannot conduct physical exams through telemedicine, it lets them take history and use visual cues to make a diagnosis. Role of Tel...