Telehealth 101: The Basics for Primary Care
Virtual healthcare services use skyrocketed during COVID. It dramatically changed the way the world did work and school and shaped how we practice medicine.
Previously, encounters were limited to patients coming into the office and being seen. There were quite a bit of phone calls, and some Inbasket electronic messages. Occasionally, someone was doing virtual appointments or had a specialty service dedicated to this. Some hospitals had begun using tele-stroke providers or tele-Intensive Care Unit monitoring. But few primary care practices incorporated it into routine services.