Becker's Healthcare September 10, 2021
The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, a coalition including hospitals, health systems, healthcare associations and other organizations, found in a recent analysis that the healthcare industry is lacking data on the quality of telemedicine diagnosis.
The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine launched a review, dubbed the TeleDx project, to understand the current landscape of telemedicine and diagnosis practice as well as patients and clinicians’ experiences with virtual care, according to a Sept. 8 news release.
The researchers reviewed 2,597 abstracts and 210 full texts from the past three years, along with blogs, Twitter chats and other secondary sources to understand how telediagnosis affects diagnostic quality and safety.
The group identified a gap in health systems’...