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Telemedicine took a step forward today with the Australian Government pledging Medicare rebates for online consultations if re-elected.
Despite this potential, tele-health or online consultation services have not been widely adopted. A lack of infrastructure – in particular, inadequate bandwidth to support high-speed transmission of images and video-conferencing – has been an obstacle to greater use of tele-health.
Technology has not been the issue for several years now with Skype effective for the delivery of some Psychiatric services in the US.
Hopefully the rebates enable visionary practitioners to offer Skype consultation as an alternative for those of us who would prefer to avoid the waiting room altogether.