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Telehealth and Public Health Practice in the United States—Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
Telehealth is the use of electronic information and telecommunication technologies to provide care when the patient and the provider are not in the same room at the same time. Telehealth accounted for less than 1% of all Medicare Fee-for-Service outpatient visits in the United States in 2019 but gre...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9532342/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36037509 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000001563 |
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author | Neri, Antonio J. Whitfield, Geoffrey P. Umeakunne, Erica T. Hall, Jeffrey E. DeFrances, Carol J. Shah, Ami B. Sandhu, Paramjit K. Demeke, Hanna B. Board, Amy R. Iqbal, Naureen J. Martinez, Katia Harris, Aaron M. Strona, Frank V. |
author_facet | Neri, Antonio J. Whitfield, Geoffrey P. Umeakunne, Erica T. Hall, Jeffrey E. DeFrances, Carol J. Shah, Ami B. Sandhu, Paramjit K. Demeke, Hanna B. Board, Amy R. Iqbal, Naureen J. Martinez, Katia Harris, Aaron M. Strona, Frank V. |
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description | Telehealth is the use of electronic information and telecommunication technologies to provide care when the patient and the provider are not in the same room at the same time. Telehealth accounted for less than 1% of all Medicare Fee-for-Service outpatient visits in the United States in 2019 but grew to account for 46% of all visits in April 2020. Changes in reimbursement and licensure policies during the COVID-19 pandemic appeared to greatly facilitate this increased use. Telehealth will continue to account for a substantial portion of care provided in the United States and globally. A better understanding of telehealth approaches and their evidence base by public health practitioners may help improve their ability to collaborate with health care organizations to improve population health. The article summarizes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) approach to understanding the evidence base for telehealth in public health practice, possible applications for telehealth in public health practice, and CDC's use of telehealth to improve population health. |
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spelling | pubmed-95323422022-10-14 Telehealth and Public Health Practice in the United States—Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic Neri, Antonio J. Whitfield, Geoffrey P. Umeakunne, Erica T. Hall, Jeffrey E. DeFrances, Carol J. Shah, Ami B. Sandhu, Paramjit K. Demeke, Hanna B. Board, Amy R. Iqbal, Naureen J. Martinez, Katia Harris, Aaron M. Strona, Frank V. J Public Health Manag Pract Research Reports Telehealth is the use of electronic information and telecommunication technologies to provide care when the patient and the provider are not in the same room at the same time. Telehealth accounted for less than 1% of all Medicare Fee-for-Service outpatient visits in the United States in 2019 but grew to account for 46% of all visits in April 2020. Changes in reimbursement and licensure policies during the COVID-19 pandemic appeared to greatly facilitate this increased use. Telehealth will continue to account for a substantial portion of care provided in the United States and globally. A better understanding of telehealth approaches and their evidence base by public health practitioners may help improve their ability to collaborate with health care organizations to improve population health. The article summarizes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) approach to understanding the evidence base for telehealth in public health practice, possible applications for telehealth in public health practice, and CDC's use of telehealth to improve population health. Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. 2022-11 2022-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9532342/ /pubmed/36037509 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000001563 Text en © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic or until permissions are revoked in writing. Upon expiration of these permissions, PMC is granted a perpetual license to make this article available via PMC and Europe PMC, consistent with existing copyright protections. |
spellingShingle | Research Reports Neri, Antonio J. Whitfield, Geoffrey P. Umeakunne, Erica T. Hall, Jeffrey E. DeFrances, Carol J. Shah, Ami B. Sandhu, Paramjit K. Demeke, Hanna B. Board, Amy R. Iqbal, Naureen J. Martinez, Katia Harris, Aaron M. Strona, Frank V. Telehealth and Public Health Practice in the United States—Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title | Telehealth and Public Health Practice in the United States—Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full | Telehealth and Public Health Practice in the United States—Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_fullStr | Telehealth and Public Health Practice in the United States—Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Telehealth and Public Health Practice in the United States—Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_short | Telehealth and Public Health Practice in the United States—Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_sort | telehealth and public health practice in the united states—before, during, and after the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Research Reports |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9532342/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36037509 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000001563 |
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