In response to a serious shortage of specialty medical care, MedStream specialists provide live, interactive telemedicine consultations to underserved areas. During regularly scheduled telemedicine specialty clinics, patients may go to their local clinic and, with their primary care provider, consult via telemedicine with MedStream specialists. Patients benefit from expanded access to care, earlier medical intervention, and enhanced quality of life. A telemedicine consultation may reduce the risk of a serious medical complication or prolonged illness.

MedStream's Telemedicine Specialty Clinics also help patients realize savings in time and travel. They help to reduce absence from work, school, or family. Rather than foregoing specialty medical care or traveling long distances, often over hazardous roads, patients receive needed specialty care through telemedicine consultations. This is especially helpful for patients who are too frail to travel or do not have access to transportation.

Along with their patients, primary care providers appreciate the health and economic benefits of timely specialty care and helping patients stay close to home. Primary care providers also acknowledge the added benefits of both consulting directly with the specialist during the telemedicine consultation and helping a patient present what may be a complex medical history.

The primary care provider's presence and participation in the consultation is often reassuring to the patient and can be very helpful to the specialist in evaluating, diagnosing, and making treatment recommendations for patients. A telemedicine consultation may also enhance the primary care provider's ability to incorporate specialty follow-up care with the patient's overall treatment plan. Primary care providers often find these consultations educational, especially in an era when medical therapies are rapidly changing and advancing.