HealthIT Answers January 31, 2023
By Joy Avery, SVP of Clinical Strategy, CipherHealth
Twitter: @cipherhealth
Virtual care swapped for in-person. Final goodbyes said over a choppy Zoom call. Sterility dialed to the max in nearly every healthcare interaction. In so many ways, and to the anguish of physicians and nurses on the frontlines, the COVID-19 pandemic drove so many of the gentle touches of humanity out of caregiving.
In the winding months since, things have gotten better, but COVID-19 has forever changed the way caregivers interact with their patients and patients’ families.
As a nation, we’re still recovering from the shock of a digitized approach to caregiving at the height of the pandemic. Telemedicine was a godsend and most certainly saved lives, but it can also...