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Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

With much of the country shut down earlier this year, the typical number of weekly virtual care visits grew from dozens, to hundreds, to thousands at hospitals and health systems across the country. “For most clinicians, and patients, this was their first experience with virtual care,” he said.

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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Health Populi

Over 20 million info seekers on WebMD had an eye exam in the past twelve months. The elephant in the room all day, I felt and said, was privacy — or lack thereof. ” A key message of Eyeconic is their value proposition of connecting you, the patient-consumer, with a real-living doctor, not a chatbot, an app, or virtual human.

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One physician's perspective on why patients prefer telehealth visits

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Here's what he's learned so far about their feelings on virtual care. Dr. Archie Adams Sometime in 2019, I was multi-tasking and racing between exam rooms amid a controlled chaos that defines an average day in my busy clinic. I knocked and entered a room to meet a patient for follow up on his MRI study.