Medscape May 11, 2021
Although the COVID-19 pandemic put telehealth on fast forward, more than one third of patients in the United States engaged with telehealth services before February 2020, according to Ameet Doshi, MD, and Chrisanne Timpe, MD, of HealthPartners in Bloomington, Minn.
Broadly speaking, telehealth is “using virtual tools to evaluate, manage, and care for our patients, regardless of where they are located,” Doshi said during a May 6 session at SHM Converge, the annual conference of the Society of Hospital Medicine.
The entirety of telehealth includes remote ways to meet almost any patient demand, he said. Some common health terms are used interchangeably, but some use telehealth as a broad term for electronic health care services, while telemedicine may refer specifically...
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