The development of telemedicine during confinement could reduce the number of daily trips for health in Ile-de-France by 300,000 to 500,000, according to a study by the Institut Paris Région published on Thursday. In Ile-de-France, during normal periods, "out of 43 million trips per day, around 2 million are linked to health reasons (including support), or around 5%" of trips, explains Dany Nguyen-Luong , director of the Mobilities and Transports department of this institute which depends on the IDF region.
"At the national level, we went from 10,000 teleconsultations per week before confinement to more than a million in the last week of April, a multiplication by 100," he said, stressing "a potential for significant reduction in displacement for health reasons if the massive practice of teleconsultation were to continue ”.
Rather local trips
“We can already reasonably envisage a medium-term scenario in Ile-de-France where 15% to 25% of physical consultations could switch to teleconsultation and tele-care. This would overall lead to a decrease in daily trips for health reasons between 300,000 and 500,000 trips, or about 1% of all trips, "he explains.
He underlines that trips for health reasons "are rather trips of proximity", with average durations "from 20 to 25 minutes to city medicine and from 30 to 40 minutes to hospital medicine". The majority of these are trips by car, which would be mainly impacted in sparsely populated areas, which will contribute to the reduction of CO2 emissions, he adds.
The reimbursement of the teleconsultation at 100%, temporarily and exceptionally, greatly facilitated this movement, he analyzes. The “rhythm” of the decline in care trips will therefore depend on “the regulatory framework imposed by Health Insurance after the derogating measures”, as well as the supply of digital services.
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