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This is a measure that was originally supposed to end with the state of health emergency on July 31. But the full reimbursement of teleconsultations could ultimately be maintained beyond this date.
It is a measure that was temporary but could last. According to our colleagues from Capitalthe full reimbursement scheme for teleconsultations should extend beyond July 31, the initial date on which it was to end.
One of the 41 proposals of the emergency flash mission
This extension was proposed in the Braun report, named after the doctor responsible for drafting proposals to improve the health system of the public hospital and enable it to overcome the coming summer period.
Dr. Braun, president of Samu-Urgences de France, officially returned the document yesterday Thursday, June 30 to Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, during a working meeting held in the company of the Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon.
It’s up to the government to make choices
During this meeting, the first arbitrations concerning all these measures were also discussed. If the decision to extend the total reimbursement of teleconsultations is decided, the measure should be ratified quickly.
In addition to this measure, Dr. Braun pleads for the deployment of mobile telemedicine units, which could move to the homes of patients seen in teleconsultation, to help the doctor.
Measures must be complementary
“A teleconsultation is not a consultation“recalls Dr. Gérald Kierzek, emergency physician and medical director of Doctissimo.And to say that a teleconsultation can replace a consultation with physical examination of the patient is to make fun of the world” the doctor is indignant.
Teleconsultation, a source of problems?
Dr. Kierzek advances two problems linked to this teleconsultation boom.
“The first concerns human resources: we find ourselves with doctors who only want to do that, and no longer wish to set up as a general practitioner or practice in a health structure, which aggravates the problems of human resources and deserts medical” he indicates.
“And the second, even more serious problem is liability: what happens if the teleconsultation does not detect a serious health problem? And this is not a theoretical problem, there are ongoing cases in the courts, such as in Grenoble, where a family filed a complaint following the death of a loved one, after a teleconsultation“.