Curbside consults join the telemedicine era

Probably since the dawn of medicine, physicians have been "curbsiding" their colleagues in the hallways of hospitals, i.e., obtaining quick answers to, hopefully, limited questions about a patient's care. The receiving physician will provide an informal and typically rushed consultation based on limited information, and does so with no compensation for time. More recently, providers have informally consulted their colleagues within the context of their Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)–approved electronic health records, or outside these systems in eminently hackable and non-HIPAA-protected email systems.
Source: Neurology Clinical Practice - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: All Clinical Neurology, All Practice Management, CME, All epidemiology Editorial Source Type: research