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Telemedicine - 2010 & 2011 - Part 1 Public Policy

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Here is the first of three pieces on where we have been in 2010 and where we are going next year for telemedicine. For telemedicine, 2010 appears to have been a watershed year - the point when many in charge of government healthcare programs finally started to seriously consider the benefits of such technology.

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I will no longer say “turning the corner” when it comes to telemedicine

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For years we talked about reaching the point when telemedicine services became self-sustaining outside of temporary grants, going from promise to reality. We have long passed the point of telemedicine being a new application. physicians and reported a first quarter profit for 2011 of $3.7