Is Telehealth A Real Alternative to In-Office Physician Consultations? (Preprint)
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UNSTRUCTURED The high cost and scarcity of physicians results in lack of proper service to the majority of the population in the US and more so in the rest of the world. Telehealth, based on remote physicians does not seem to be the solution due to less than optimal cost/benefit ratio offered to the human provider. Recent developments in mobile processing power, mobile camera resolution, and deep learning technology present an opportunity to build solutions to specific diseases that are comparable in accuracy to a human in-person service for a fraction of the cost democratizing the availability of health services.