Telemedicine
Telemedicine plays an important role for non-contact online patient care.
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The industry of telemedicine is at a tipping point, expanding far beyond interactions between physicians and patients into entirely new ways to deliver healthcare and practice medicine.
Telemedicines offers a four-pronged framework to examine the current world of telemedicine: direct-to-consumer, self-service, clinician collaboration, and "spaces."
HOW COVID-19 CHANGED HEALTHCARE AND BROUGHT TELEMEDICINE TO THE FOREFRONT
Global Solutions offering all 4 framework with their newly launched telemedicine platform that satisfy the "Spaces" element of the framework. It involves a shift in forward thinking with the idea that future patients can be treated through telemedicine at home, in the hospital, in nursing homes, in physician's offices and other places.
HOW TELEMEDICINE CAN HELP?
Patients definitely see the potential benefits of telemedicine, as usage has skyrocketed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Kaiser Health News, the famed Cleveland Clinic health system logged as many as 60,000 virtual visits in March. Previously it averaged around 3,400 such visits per month.
