In a year, the Covid-19 pandemic transformed telehealth from an underutilized niche into a mainstay of care provision. Proponents hold up digital platforms as a means to provide convenient, accessible, and cost-effective healthcare. The benefits telemedicine offers should not be ignored. But amid a too-rapid expansion, providers may risk inadvertently exacerbating access disparities. The idea [...]
Before COVID-19, the question of whether digital consultations would ever supplant in-person sessions as the industry norm would have been difficult to imagine. However, when faced with the choice of either shuttering their doors against the virus or migrating onto digital platforms, mental health professionals have overwhelmingly selected the latter. In June, the American Psychological [...]
While telemedicine’s applications in primary and senior home care have been extensively covered in journals and newspapers, comparatively little has been said about digitally-facilitated treatment’s place in emergency medicine. Telemedicine has significant, if relatively untapped, potential to boost efficiency and improvement care quality within the specialty. Several studies have considered the benefit that teleconsultations could [...]
A mother, torn between her worry over her young son’s rash and the fear of leaving isolation, finds solace in a phone consultation with a pediatrician. A confirmed COVID-19 patient quarantines at home, knowing that his texted check-ins with his primary care physician will help him get car without putting others at risk. An elderly [...]