Healthcare Innovation May 14, 2024
Goal is to expand tele-psychiatry program as well as care for diabetes, asthma and complex chronic diseases, says Children’s National’s Shireen Atabaki, M.D., M.P.H.
During the pandemic, Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., developed a school-based telehealth program to connect students with a Children’s National physician when needed while keeping them in school. Shireen Atabaki, M.D., M.P.H., medical director of telemedicine on the emergency medicine team at the hospital, recently spoke with Healthcare Innovation about the program’s impact on students’ physical and mental health and plans for future expansion.
Healthcare Innovation: How long has Children’s National been working with the District’s schools on telehealth? Did it start during the pandemic?
Atabaki: We did start the program during the...
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