KevinMD March 25, 2020
For thousands of years, medicine was an in-person enterprise. Patients with mysterious symptoms or requiring complex interventions traveled days to obtain an expert opinion. At times, Medicine appears to be nostalgic for these days now past; as society braces for the advent of 5G, many of us in medicine communicate via pager and landline telephones. The potential of telemedicine – the use of technology to remotely deliver patient care – has laid dormant for many years. COVID-19 has urgently summoned telemedicine to the front lines. It is our hope that once the pandemic abates, telemedicine will persist as an accessible way to provide effective medical care. Only by maintaining reimbursement parity will this be the case.
The benefits of telemedicine
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