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Telehealth Increases Productivity

American Medical Compliance

One pediatric clinic, Happy Kids, in Phoenix, Arizona, faced a 40 percent reduction in patient volume during the pandemic. Patients who need simple but essential forms of care, such as reviewing test results, annual check-ins with physicians, or prescription refills could receive this with telemedicine. Telehealth and Care Access.

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What has gotten better and what has gotten worse since you started in medicine

Sensible Medicine

We don’t operate on everyone with appendicitis. Sometimes we aren’t even in the same room as our patient, opting to obtain a history in a remote environment, practicing what has been termed “telemedicine” (some might rate this as improvement, others the opposite). We no longer starve people with pancreatitis.