From the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine: STFM Forms Task Force to Develop a National Telemedicine Curriculum from STFM

摘要

Telemedicine or telehealth—defined as the long-distance delivery of medical care using technology— has grown exponentially in the United States in the past 20 years, and contemporary trends in the health care environment are serving to fuel this growth into the future. More than one-half of all US health care institutions provide some form of telemedicine, and more are employing increasingly sophisticated tools. Undoubtedly, the COVID-19 pandemic has quickly escalated this need in the first half of 2020.