Despite Provider Barriers: Telemedicine is the Future

Telemedicine has emerged as a method to serve rural and frontier populations that otherwise would have limited access to health care. Driven in large part by demand for greater efficiency along with the need to increase access to health care for patients. Worldwide adoption of telemedicine has made an increasingly mainstream method for receiving care however, it is oftentimes a disruptive technology. Despite more mainstream use and positive benefits for patients, provider barriers along several dimensions remain such as policy, billing, licensing, and the myriad of interactions between patients and providers with the technology. This review identifies a number of these barriers for providers and recommends ways in which they might be overcome. Additionally, we evaluated the impacts these barriers have on providers in the state of Utah.