Telemedicine is defined most simply as the remote provision of health services using a combination of information technology and telecommunication. This combination allows healthcare providers and patients to connect using…

Since the invention of the telephone, patients, and physicians have been calling one another. For most of the 140 years since Alexander Graham Bell, physicians did not even think of…

Telemedicine is not a new concept; nevertheless, it took the COVID-19 crisis to generate widespread interest in telemedicine. In early 2020 there were widespread shutdowns of physicians’ offices and outpatient…

In 2017, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the first prescribable digital therapies to treat disease, in this case, substance abuse. In early 2021, a health intelligence platform offered…

Telemedicine is defined as the practice of medicine using electronic communications where the patient and the provider are in different locations. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, there was very little telemedicine…

Throughout the history of medicine, there have been two recurring themes: change and resistance to change. Changes in medicine came in the form of scientific advances such as the germ…

Telemedicine is defined as any doctor–patient encounter that occurs via electronic means. The technology supporting telemedicine has been around for years; then it became essential in early 2020, and telemedicine…