Remember a month ago when I discussed the world outside the health IT industry discovering telehealth? I may have vastly underestimated how big it is becoming.

Research firm Parks Associates this week said that video consultations between physicians and patients is about to take off like a rocket. In promoting its upcoming, inaugural Connected Health Summit, the Dallas-based company released a startling forecast. “The number of doctor-patient video consultations will nearly triple from this year to the next, from 5.7 million in 2014 to over 16 million in 2015, and will exceed 130 million in 2018,” Harry Wang, Parks Associates’ director of health and mobile product research, said in a press release.

From the article "Parks Forecast Says Telehealth Will Grow Exponentially In Coming Years" by Neil Versel.

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