HealthTech June 19, 2020
Jen A. Miller

The frontline caretakers are using collaboration tools to reduce workflows, protect high-risk patients and collect data for clinicians.
As telehealth expands at a record pace among users and providers, a growing number of medical specialties are offering virtual appointments to patients from a distance.

Increasingly, nurses are the ones to deliver or coordinate the care.

Their use of telehealth was already prospering before the COVID-19 pandemic in settings such as hospitals, clinics, call centers, schools, and post-acute and long-term care facilities, the American Telemedicine Association notes.

But their role is expanding, and quickly.

“Nurses are really there to help promote the health...

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