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Opening the Digital Front Door to Medical Students

Beyond Telehealth

However, that does not mean every doctor is prepared or properly trained to perform a telemedicine visit. Thus, in our academic Family Medicine office, we are teaching fourth-year medical students how to perform telemedicine encounters. It is important to teach that these virtual visits are the same as in-person medical visits.

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Shaping the future of health technologies

Digital Leaders HealthTech

Whilst the earliest electronic medical records (EMRs) were created over 40 years ago, we’ve only seen the mass shift in health information go from analogue to digital in the past 10 years. Telemedicine . Patient information is the currency through which health systems process, exchange, and interpret information.