The American Telemedicine Association is bringing together leaders in telehealth service delivery, hospital systems and medical practices, technology solution providers, patient advocacy organizations, policymakers and other stakeholders during the first-annual Telehealth Awareness Week™, September 19-25, 2021.
Virtual care is moving & shaking! Kudos to the ATA for making this happen, it’s been a long time coming for human health. Let’s hope the wait is not as long for animal health!” – VVCA
Source: ATA, via VVCA. Link. Following the unprecedented use of telehealth and virtual care services in response to the public health emergency, telehealth is now calibrating to account for 15 to 25 percent of care delivery, creating a two-channel healthcare system that balances in-person and virtual care.
NOTE: Telehealth is the use of smartphones, sensors, tablets and other technologies to securely connect patients and their health care providers when an in-person interaction is not clinically necessary or available. Telehealth includes real-time, synchronous, interactive encounters between a patient and a healthcare provider via video, telephone or live chat; secure, asynchronous or chat-based interactions; and remote patient monitoring for ongoing condition monitoring and chronic disease management.