Healthcare IT News December 22, 2025
Telemedicine can bring down the wait to see a specialist from months to hours, while reducing costs. Health systems can do well to create telehealth-first specialist programs that refer to in-person visits when necessary, a teledermatologist says.
With the advent of urgent care, people suddenly were able to see a primary care physician within a matter of hours without having to go to an emergency room. Urgent care changed the way a big chunk of healthcare is delivered.
But what about urgent care for seeing a specialist? Sometimes people do have an urgent need to see a specialist – for example, some psychiatric problems. In other cases, people need to see specialists a lot sooner than they can get an...
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