Description

As hospitals and HMOs increasingly look to cut costs, telemedicine system and service vendors are facing significant barriers to mass deployment of telemedicine products. The expense of implementing a telemedicine program is often too high for hospitals, and the benefits are difficult for vendors to quantify. Market participants must successfully demonstrate the financial self sufficiency of telemedicine programs to win contracts. The technology in Telemedicine is completely dictated by the Electronic/ semiconductor content going into the equipment.