HealthIT Answers December 12, 2020
By Matt Fisher, Esq
Building on years of hype and promise, telehealth began to get its moment in early 2020 when COVID-19 brought much of the healthcare system to a halt as a means of enabling care to be focused on the growing pandemic. With the sudden thrust to center stage, an overnight scramble started across all types of care delivery organizations from physician practices to hospitals to skilled nursing facilities, and countless others. Many lessons were learned in addition to identification of further opportunities and issues to improve.
A Mad Dash to Implement
The initial realization that telehealth would become the primary means of delivering care in the early days of COVID meant many organizations had to determine what exactly...