Editor’s note: This blog post originally appeared on Sound Physicians’s website.
As a hospitalist and National Medical Director for Sound Physicians, Carpenter engages in many emergency planning scenarios and model deployments on local, regional, and national levels. During a healthcare emergency, one of the core problems to solve is access to physicians and advanced practice providers. What is different with the COVID-19 healthcare emergency is the mode in which we enable access to clinicians.
Carpenter tends to think of the continuum of care in three settings: pre-hospital, hospital or acute care setting, and the post-acute care setting like a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) or a patient’s home. Through the technology of telemedicine, clinicians can care for acutely ill patients in all three care settings, no matter their location.
We are all very conversant with the direct-to-consumer model of telemedicine, which has its place in the national response to the COVID-19 virus. However, clinician initiated telemedicine can also play a significant role in acute care and post-acute care settings. Continue here>>
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