Telemedicine: Not New but Never More Useful

During the session “Expert Consensus on the Use of Telemedicine in the Roles, Tasks, and Functions of the PALTC Medical Director” at the Annual Conference of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, Suzanne Gillespie, MD, RD, CMD, noted that the concept of virtual medicine is hardly new. Ba ck in the 1970s, “TV physician Marcus Welby used the phone to render general care,” she pointed out. Even more telling was the scene in the 1960s cartoon The Jetsons, where Elroy tries to stay home sick from school — only to have his mother arrange a telemedicine visit.

Source: Caring for the Ages - July 30, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Joanne Kaldy Source Type: news