Politico January 17, 2024
Telehealth is reducing the burden and stigma traditionally associated with treatment for tuberculosis, the deadly bacterial lung disease.
How so? For years, the standard way — and in many states and countries, the legally required way — of ensuring someone with TB takes their medicine has been having a public health worker watch them do so in person, former POLITICO health care editor Joanne Kenen, now journalist-in-residence at Johns Hopkins’ School of Public Health and School of Nursing, reports.
However, Dr. Maunank Shah, medical director of the Baltimore City TB program and a physician/researcher at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, saw a use case for telehealth.
Now, using a platform Shah and his colleagues developed, public health workers are...
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