Image from forbes.com
Eva Patel
With the rise of coronavirus cases in the United States, workplaces and schools have had to adjust to remote video communication. From the rise of working from home via video conferencing and the surge of telehealth, this outbreak has accelerated changes and brought challenges for all.
Telehealth, or telemedicine, is defined as the transfer of medical services or information remotely through communication technologies. Telemedicine allows people to get medical care from the comfort and safety of their home. Healthcare privacy law enforcement is relaxed, allowing use of everyday video apps, and Medicare and Medicaid have expanded what they will pay for with commercial insurers following suit.
Through the CARES Act, Congress has allocated two hundred million dollars to medical groups to install the technology needed for a widespread expansion into telehealth. Physicians at hospitals over the U.S. have seen a major spike in telehealth services. Physicians at Stanford Medicine have also reported feelings of empathy through telemedicine, and have said that video calling patients rather than communicating through their PPE has allowed them to form a greater connection.
However, with the rise of communication technology comes a rise in security issues. Zoom, for example, has faced “Zoombombing,” where intruders join Zoom meetings with the intent to disrupt. Zoom CEO, Eric Yuan, has apologized for the Zoom security threats and released Zoom 5.0 on April 27 to combat Zoombombing.
Telehealth may also come with its own issues; over-billing and over-utilization of telehealth has been a major concern that could come with relaxing anti-fraud guardrails on telehealth. Krista Drobac, the executive director of the Alliance for Connected Care, contests that any industry faces the risk of fraudsters, and that the benefits of telehealth outweigh any potential risks. The rise in telehealth also poses a technical challenge with many private practices not equipped for telehealth.
Everyone is adjusting to these unprecedented times and new technology – as patients and physicians, students and teachers, we are all learning together.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/zoom-privacy-lessons.html
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/03/826129520/a-must-for-millions-zoom-has-a-dark-side-and-an-fbi-warning
https://fortune.com/2020/04/09/virtual-health-care-telehealth-coronavirus/
Hello to every one, since I am genuinely keen of reading
this website’s post to be updated regularly.
It carries nice data.
Thiss is the perfect blog for anybody who hopes to find out
about this topic. You definitely put a brand new spin onn a topic which hass been discussed for decades.Wonderful stuff, just
excellent!
I am pleased that I detected this web blog,
just the right information that I was searching for!
Hi there too every body, it’s myy fist go to ssee of this webpage; this webppage contains amaziing annd really excellent data in support of
readers.
I do not even know how I ended up here, but I thought this post was great.
I don’t know who you are but certainly you are going to
a famous blogger iif you are not already 🙂 Cheers!
Way cool! Some very valid points! I appreciate you penning this
post and the rest of the website is also really good.
Hello! I wish too say that this poxt is awesome, great written and come
with approximately all important infos. I’dlike to look extra
posts like this! 🙂
Pretty! This has been aan extremely wonderful post.Thank you
for supplying this info.
Hello, after reading this amazing article i amm as well
happy to share my familiarity here with mates!
I do so hope this sight continues the work it has been doing this far. It is one of the very rare few that takes into account the concerns an issues of the majority of people. Or should I say your commonplace person. All of us that are, have been, or maybe one day over looked in our concerns for very prudent topics that need to be addressed. No one can be at the top of the people unless there are people at the bottom. And there are where the issue are that need answers. As it is those that effect the many . instead of the upper few that ignore our voices and concerns so that they go unnoticed and therefore only cause our concerns to grow without possible solutions to behold. Thank you for your voices.