TY - JOUR
T1 - Optimizing the Potential for Telehealth in Cardiovascular Care (in the Era of COVID-19)
T2 - Time Will Tell
AU - Patel, Parth
AU - Dhindsa, Devinder
AU - Eapen, Danny J.
AU - Khera, Amit
AU - Gulati, Martha
AU - Stone, Neil J.
AU - Yancy, Clyde W.
AU - Rumsfeld, John S.
AU - Sperling, Laurence S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2021/8
Y1 - 2021/8
N2 - Before the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, use of telehealth services had been limited in cardiovascular care. Potential benefits of telehealth include improved access to care, more efficient care management, reduced costs, the ability to assess patients within their homes while involving key caretakers in medical decisions, maintaining social distance, and increased patient satisfaction. Challenges include changes in payment models, issues with data security and privacy, potential depersonalization of the patient-clinician relationship, limitations in the use of digital health technologies, and the potential impact on disparities, including socioeconomic, gender, and age-related issues and access to technology and broadband. Implementation and expansion of telehealth from a policy and reimbursement practice standpoint are filled with difficult decisions, yet addressing these are critical to the future of health care.
AB - Before the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, use of telehealth services had been limited in cardiovascular care. Potential benefits of telehealth include improved access to care, more efficient care management, reduced costs, the ability to assess patients within their homes while involving key caretakers in medical decisions, maintaining social distance, and increased patient satisfaction. Challenges include changes in payment models, issues with data security and privacy, potential depersonalization of the patient-clinician relationship, limitations in the use of digital health technologies, and the potential impact on disparities, including socioeconomic, gender, and age-related issues and access to technology and broadband. Implementation and expansion of telehealth from a policy and reimbursement practice standpoint are filled with difficult decisions, yet addressing these are critical to the future of health care.
KW - Cardiology
KW - Cardiovascular disease
KW - Health Policy
KW - Telehealth
KW - Telemedicine
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U2 - 10.1016/j.amjmed.2021.03.007
DO - 10.1016/j.amjmed.2021.03.007
M3 - Review article
C2 - 33845033
AN - SCOPUS:85106634719
SN - 0002-9343
VL - 134
SP - 945
EP - 951
JO - American journal of medicine
JF - American journal of medicine
IS - 8
ER -