Beyond Audio-Video Telehealth: Perspective on the Current State and Future Directions of Digital Neurological Care in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic transformed neurological care by both requiring digital health modalities to reach patients and profoundly lowering barriers to digital health adoption. This combination of factors has given rise to a distinctive, emerging care model in neurology characterized by new technologies, care arrangements, and uncertainties. As the pandemic transitions to an endemic, there is a need to characterize the current and future states of this unique period in neurology.

Objective

We sought to describe the current state of the pandemic- and postpandemic-related changes in neurological care and offer a view of the possible future directions of the field.

Methods

We reviewed several themes across the "new digital normal" in neurology, including trends

SUBMITTER: Kummer BR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12671329 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature