Advancing Telemedicine Within Family Medicine's Core Values

Telemedicine adoption has been gradual but accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is important for us to pause and consider how this impacts family medicine. How do we ground ourselves so that we use technology to enhance our practice while maintaining fundamental family medicine values? In th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Cheng, Anthony, Guzman, Cirila Estela Vasquez, Duffield, Tyler C., Hofkamp, Holly
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2021
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Opinion
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7888289/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32744897
http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2020.0282
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Sumario:Telemedicine adoption has been gradual but accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is important for us to pause and consider how this impacts family medicine. How do we ground ourselves so that we use technology to enhance our practice while maintaining fundamental family medicine values? In this article, we explore how telemedicine interacts with five family medicine tenants: contextual care, continuity of care, access to care, comprehensive care, and care coordination. Keeping this framework in mind and using a health equity lens can help us retain fundamental family medicine values as we adapt to rapid technological change.

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