The deployment of the telemedicine to answer the stakes in meet the challenges of the 21th century: Examples of experiments in Picardy

Abstract

International audienceCurrently, we are seeing a considerable organizational change of the health system and the practices of professionals that causes a number of concerns about access to care. In the face of these uncertainties and questions, telemedicine - a medical practice using information and communication technologies - appears to be an essential way to guarantee access to care for all by responding, in part, to the territorial inequalities as evidenced by a number of local examples in Picardie. However, in order to permit an efficient deployment of telemedicine on a large scale, all the obstacles must be removed: responsibility, financing of the telemedicine activity, e-inclusion and accessibility... so as to avoid exacerbating the territorial inequalities of health. (C) 2019 Published by Elsevier Masson SAS on behalf of Academie Nationale De Medecine