Perspective: What a Difference a Disaster Makes: The Telehealth Revolution in the Age of COVID-19 Pandemic | Zendy

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Perspective: What a Difference a Disaster Makes: The Telehealth Revolution in the Age of COVID-19 Pandemic

Author(s) -

John Maese,

Donna Seminara,

Zeel Shah,

Anita Szerszen

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

american journal of medical quality

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.592

H-Index - 53

eISSN - 1555-824X

pISSN - 1062-8606

DOI - 10.1177/1062860620933587

Subject(s) - pandemic , telehealth , telemedicine , medicine , covid-19 , perspective (graphical) , mainstream , health care , synchronicity , public relations , medical emergency , economic growth , virology , political science , outbreak , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , economics , philosophy , disease , epistemology , pathology , artificial intelligence

Despite the existence of telemedicine since the late 1950s and early 1960s, it took a pandemic to bring this technology mainstream. The critical urgency of the pandemic drove an auspicious alignment of policy, economics, and technology to facilitate the widespread implementation of telehealth. It is imperative that this synchronicity be maintained in the post-COVID era in order to optimize our health care system to be ready for the next threat to the health of the United States.

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