First of all, is to a certain extent to alleviate the expert resources, China's population distribution is extremely unbalanced status quo. 80% of China's population is distributed in the county below the less developed areas of medical and health resources, while 80% of China's medical and health resources are distributed in large and medium-sized cities, the development of medical level is not balanced, tertiary hospitals and high-precision, sophisticated medical equipment is also to be distributed in the big cities as much. Even in big cities, patients want to go to tertiary hospitals to receive expert treatment, resulting in the influx of patients from primary hospitals to municipal hospitals, increasing the burden on municipal hospitals, resulting in tense beds and idle beds at the primary level, which ultimately leads to the uneven distribution of healthcare resources and waste. Utilizing the teleconsultation system allows patients in less developed areas to receive treatment from specialists in large hospitals. In addition, measures such as distance education can also improve the standard of physicians in small and medium-sized hospitals to a certain extent.
Secondly, it eases the problem of high referral ratio and high cost for patients in remote areas. China is a vast country with a large population, and patients in remote areas, due to the backwardness of local medical conditions, are often sent to higher-level hospitals for specialist consultations for critical and difficult patients. As a result, the transportation costs, family members' accompanying costs, and hospitalization medical fees for overseas medical consultations add to the financial burden of patients. At the same time, the bumpy road also causes more discomfort to the patient's body, while many patients who do not have the conditions to go to a large hospital delayed diagnosis and treatment, causing physical and mental pain to the patient and his family. According to the survey, the proportion of patients in remote areas who are transferred to higher-level hospitals is quite high; the average cost is very expensive, and other expenses (diagnostic costs, various examination costs, travel expenses, escort costs, accommodation costs, meal costs, etc.) in addition to the cost of treatment cost thousands of dollars, which is almost unaffordable to the patients. The teleconsultation system allows patients to receive appropriate treatment locally, greatly reducing the cost of consultation.