Telemedicine and Team-Based Care: The Perils and the Promise.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated adoption of telemedicine visits into American medicine. It is commonly believed that, within a matter of weeks, telemedicine was widely and successfully implemented and that medicine is forever changed. The experience on the ground, however, is more nuanced, with both positive and negative experiences for patients and clinicians. Advanced models of team-based care with in-room support (aTBC) have developed over the past decade, with strategic delegation of tasks to uptrained support staff, allowing physicians to provide undivided attention to their patients and greater access to care for their populations. Herein, we describe our initial experiences with telemedicine in the context of many years practicing in aTBC models. Our experience demonstrates that w

SUBMITTER: Sinsky CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7857703 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature