from Stat News:
[gview file=”https://publicservicesalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/9-ways-Covid-19-may-forever-upend-the-U.S.-health-care-industry-STAT.pdf”]“There’s the assumption in primary care that you always had to have in-person contact, and that telemedicine would be unsatisfactory, or wouldn’t fill the void. That’s been exposed — actually, it’s safer, it’s quicker, and it’s easier. If I just have a quick question, I want to see someone and engage them and see their focus is on me. But do I have to be in that office? And for a physician, can I get more things done, be more efficient, and protect myself, as well as my patients? People are now seeing this model, which we thought would take years and years to develop. And it’s probably been accelerated by a decade.”