AT&T: Healthcare embracing telepresence - Telecom News Analysis

The U.S. healthcare industry, under pressure to get a handle on costs, is embracing telepresence as one means of reducing expenditure, according to AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T).

The resulting cuts in travel costs, and more productive collaboration among medical professionals, are just two of the factors driving increasing demand for telepresence in the health sector, making it more popular than most remote diagnostic applications, according to Alan Benway, AT&T's executive director of product marketing management for telepresence. (See AT&T Helps Center...)