Special Lecture | Telehealth: One Year and More After COVID-19
Monday, December 6, 2021
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OVERVIEW:
This session highlights the impact of telehealth in patient care management during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth was utilized as a crisis standard of care. This session explores current data on safety and quality of telehealth when implemented on large scale quickly during the time of a national emergency.
In this session, Topics include barriers related to evolving Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services rules/guidelines in the implementation of telehealth, and disparities that have been punctuated as the digital divide became more evident. Speakers also highlight the need to make telehealth part of mainstream curriculum as this skill should be familiar to every neurologist moving forward — even after resolution of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Learning Objectives:
Following participation in this activity, participants will be able to:
- Develop an understanding of the value of telehealth in epilepsy during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Identify quality and safety data of large-scale implementation of telehealth
- Review why telehealth should stay and barriers to make telehealth standard of care and not crisis standard as evidenced by the COVID-19 pandemic
Program:
Chair: Anup Patel, MD, FAES, FAAN
Introduction | Anup Patel, MD, FAES, FAAN
Successes: Quality and Safety Data in Large-Scale Use of Telehealth | Charuta Joshi, MBBS, FAES
Challenges: Telehealth in the Age of New CMS Guidelines | Susan Herman, MD, FAES, FAAN
Opportunities: What Will It Take to Make Telehealth Standard of Care? | Sucheta Joshi, MD, FAES
Panel Discussion | Anup Patel, MD, FAES, FAAN
Education Credit:
1.5 CME