January 18, 2021
by Elizabeth Pratt
A year ago, trying to get patients at Michigan Medicine to agree to telehealth for their mental health appointments was a challenge.
The academic medical centre associated with the University of Michigan had only 26 video appointments in a six month period compared with 30 thousand in person visits.
COVID-19 changed all that.
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October 16, 2020
by Tina Arnoldi
Millions of patients and doctors are using telehealth for the first time and likely will continue doing so for the foreseeable future. Although the end of COVID-19 is not yet in sight, patients continue to need routine medical care. The benefits of technology are beyond what we could have imagined decades ago, but we’re experiencing cognitive overload, brought on by our dependence on technology, bringing a whole new set of health problems.
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