Telemedicine and Infectious Diseases Practice: A Leap Forward or a Step Back?

Infectious Diseases (ID) specialists pride themselves on performing a thorough history and physical exam, and developing a comprehensive diagnosis and management plan. A timely question is whether this tradition is at risk from the coming wave of telemedicine in clinical practice? It would not be if...

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Autores principales: Abdel-Massih, Rima C, Mellors, John W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Perspectives
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6527083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31139674
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz196
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description Infectious Diseases (ID) specialists pride themselves on performing a thorough history and physical exam, and developing a comprehensive diagnosis and management plan. A timely question is whether this tradition is at risk from the coming wave of telemedicine in clinical practice? It would not be if ID specialists embrace the changes ahead and leverage new technologies to enhance the efficiency and reach of their clinical practices. In this report, we highlight the opportunities and challenges offered by telemedicine for ID practice (Table 1).
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spelling pubmed-65270832019-05-28 Telemedicine and Infectious Diseases Practice: A Leap Forward or a Step Back? Abdel-Massih, Rima C Mellors, John W Open Forum Infect Dis Perspectives Infectious Diseases (ID) specialists pride themselves on performing a thorough history and physical exam, and developing a comprehensive diagnosis and management plan. A timely question is whether this tradition is at risk from the coming wave of telemedicine in clinical practice? It would not be if ID specialists embrace the changes ahead and leverage new technologies to enhance the efficiency and reach of their clinical practices. In this report, we highlight the opportunities and challenges offered by telemedicine for ID practice (Table 1). Oxford University Press 2019-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6527083/ /pubmed/31139674 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz196 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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