Medical Economics March 26, 2020
Editor’s note: This is one of three articles aimed at helping small practices survive the COVID-19 crisis. The other two articles address:
If the Coronavirus pandemic contains any silver lining for primary care doctors, it may be to speed the adoption of telemedicine and other alternatives to in-person patient visits.
While technology enabling doctors to provide some forms of care remotely has been available for decades, adoptions has been slow due to privacy concerns, lack of adequate reimbursement, technology costs and physician inertia. But with patient visits dwindling as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, clinicians have been turning to e-mail, texting, and telemedicine to maintain contact...
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