With telemedicine likely to expand in the post-Covid world, health care providers will need to work though some fundamental questions. How can we best scale telecare to the broad population? How will it change the way we gather and analyze health care data? And what new models of care will emerge? Specialties like psychiatry, where the use of telecare has been encompassing more than 40% of patient encounters, can help point the way forward.
Psychiatry Is Revealing the Potential — and Pitfalls — of Telehealth
Three lessons to guide providers.
December 07, 2020
Summary.
The use of telemedicine has grown enormously during the pandemic, but it still must overcome several challenges if it is to become a permanent component of health care. Its application in psychiatry during the pandemic provides insights into what will need to be done to tailor it to the individual to reduce disparities, incorporate numerous streams of data, and develop new care models to build patient engagement.
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