New York Times Covers Telemedicine and NuPhysicia

Healing by 2-Way Video - The Rise of Telemedicine - NYTimes.com

In March, California officials released a report they had ordered from NuPhysicia with a plan for making over their state’s prison health care. The makeover would build on the Texas example by expanding existing telemedicine and electronic medical record systems and putting the University of California in charge.

California spends more than $40 a day per inmate for health care, including expenses for guards who accompany them on visits to outside doctors. NuPhysicia says that this cost is more than four times the rate in Texas and Georgia, and almost triple that of New Jersey, where telemedicine is used for mental health care and some medical specialties.

To round out the picture, this breathless article should also include coverage of officials at UTMB, NuPhysicia's birthplace after all, breathlessly declaring they're losing money hand over fist even as officials simultaneously claim to be in the black for the first time in years. The link below leads to an article with UTMB officials crying, "Woe is me."

UTMB officials claim to be losing money

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