Patients seem to like remote visits, and health care providers now depend on them. But outages, freezing and other glitches cost time and money, and can compromise quality of care. “On an iPhone, I can click one button to see my grandkids,” one professor says. “Can we not make telemedicine systems as easy as that?”
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