Telemedicine, safe medication stewardship, and COVID-19: Digital transformation during a global pandemic.

ABSTRACT: Telemedicine may provide equitable, accessible, and affordable healthcare to individuals globally. Recently tele-medicine has emerged as a vital resource for interdisciplinary healthcare professionals to provide critical medical care on the frontlines during the combined COVID-19 pandemic and the drug and opioid crisis. With the recent 2020 expansion of insurance coverage of telemedicine services by the United States Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, there has been an uptick in the need to understand how to comprehensively train physicians and health care professionals on telemedicine during a public health crisis. This study gathered 98 survey responses from interdisciplinary healthcare professionals regarding their telemedicine experience, focusing on trends of use with the drug

SUBMITTER: Kulchar RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9342857 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature