Telehealth Expansion And Scaling: Tough Challenges
SIU School of Medicine’s traditional site-based telehealth program had served patients in central and southern Illinois pre-pandemic, but once the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) began, SIU School of Medicine’s program needed to expand to see patients at home. Despite the many challenges that come with expanding a telehealth program, SIU School of Medicine providers started seeing patients at home and tried to limit the impact of the PHE on patient care as much as possible.
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