43 of 50 states are experiencing a severe shortage in psychiatrists specializing in child and adolescent care. Telehealth may be able to help. The United States has been experiencing a critical shortage in access to mental health for years now. According to a 2018 study from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, 38% of Americans seeking care had to wait longer than a week for necessary … [Read more...]
Telemedicine may be the new normal in a post-coronavirus world. Here’s how it works in six common specialties
[Reprinted: Medical Xpress, 6-16-2020] The new coronavirus pandemic has necessitated the embrace of virtual medicine regardless of how ready patients, doctors, nurses and health care systems were for the shift. Now that telehealth has been quickly rolled out across the nation and patients and clinicians have found the experience useful, it is unlikely that virtual doctor visits, in all its … [Read more...]
Jamaica: Garth Rattray | Fast-Track Support Systems For Telemedicine – Pt 1
[Reprinted: The Gleaner, 7/6/2020] Until vaccines (hopefully) offer safe, effective and long-term immunity to the SARS-CoV2 virus, we will be forced to avoid congregating, intimate greetings, unprotected outings, and we must reduce our exposure time to public spaces. We need to maintain social distancing, along with high personal and environmental hygiene, if we are to beat this thing. Now … [Read more...]
Virtual visits: Spurred on by the pandemic, telemedicine has gone mainstream
[Reprinted: Las Vegas Sun, 6-10-2020] As cities across the country began shutting down when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States, people still needed to receive advice and treatment from doctors for symptoms non-COVID-related. Physicians had to figure out another way to reach patients. Dr. Thomas Hunt, chair of family medicine at Henderson’s Roseman University of Health Sciences and … [Read more...]