The internet is set to make dramatic changes to the relationship between doctor and patient. Using the latest communications technology, doctors can now diagnose and treat patients many miles from their consulting rooms.

This saves patients hours of unnecessary travel time that they for example could use for exercise.

Once perfected, the telemedicine technology is expected to be rolled out across the Danish healthcare service in three years time and not long afterwards elsewhere in the Union.

For this purpose the Elector project, based in Denmark, the UK and the Czech Republic, was just awarded €4 Million through the Horizon 2020 funding programme.

Source: BBC

More info: www.elector.eu

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