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Futureproof Extra: Telemedicine

Healthcare has long been associated with one-on-one interactions between patient and doctor. An i...

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07.35 15 Oct 2019


Futureproof Extra: Telemedicine



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07.35 15 Oct 2019


Healthcare has long been associated with one-on-one interactions between patient and doctor.

An intimate and deeply personal relationship based on trust at times when we are most vulnerable.

But what if that relationship was not only going to change irrevocably in the future, but had already begun to do so?

Far from the days of WebMD - Telemedicine is expanding far beyond interactions between physicians and patients into entirely new ways of delivering healthcare and practice medicine and is changing the way we receive healthcare in ways we could not have dreamed of in the past.

Professor Barry O’Reilly, Director of ASSERT, Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at University College Cork joined Jonathan in studio to discuss.


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