The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Tech-tonic Shift Toward Virtual Diabetes Care

摘要

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, I have learned that transformative, radical change can take place at breakneck pace, even in the historically stubborn world of health care. It’s hard to say what has been more surprising: (1) how quickly many long-standing bureaucratic barriers to telemedicine and other innovative health technologies have disappeared, or (2) how quickly these technologies have been adopted by patients, practices, and health care systems.