Telemedicine Used in New Healthcare Settings Like Coaching

I continue to believe that telemedicine will be one of the key elements enabling hospitals to provide services to more consumers at a lower cost. Telemedicine was initially limited to simple, easily diagnosed conditions but is now expanding into areas like chronic care (see: Treatment of Patients with Chronic Diseases: Important for the Future of Telemedicine. Early adopters of telemedicine such as Kaiser Health (see:Kaiser CEO: Telehealth Outpaced In-Person Visits Last Year) and theCleveland Clinic are now testing new types of care delivery with the technology and a recent article was devoted to this topic (see:How Cleveland Clinic uses telehealth to introduce new dimensions of care). Below is an excerpt from it:Telehealth may have begun as being most relevant for urgent care, but it has greatly expanded its potential and can be effective across many departments of a hospital. Cleveland Clinic has introduced telehealth across 40 different departments, including neurology, endocrinology, heart and vascular, women ’s health and genetics. Any department can be an optimal fit for virtual care, as long as the excitement for telehealth is built into the DNA of providers....Cleveland Clinic has introduced telehealth across many different types of visits, from post-operative care and shared medical appointments, to discharge follow-up and coaching. They see future opportunity for areas ...
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