Study: Pandemic has forced US medical professionals to add more virtual visits

While virtual medical visits are not new, the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic have forced medical professionals to add more and more virtual visits to their schedules and patients to rethink how they seek access to medical care. — 123rf.com

WILKES-BARRE: Teri Ooms, executive director at The Institute for Public Policy and Economic Development at Wilkes University, this week said although there are technological downfalls and some aspects of medicine that are currently impossible to accomplish over a video chat, local telehealth practices have allowed patients to stay socially distanced from one another while simultaneously acquiring much needed care from their trusted healthcare professionals.

“Sadly, we are in the midst of a resurgence of Covid-19, this surge is just as if not more challenging than the original in the spring and taxes all essential workers, but most of all our health care systems and workers. we are going to discuss how our innovative health care systems and providers pivoted during Covid, used technology, and took care of so many of us through telehealth services,” Ooms said.