Amid pandemic, health care practitioners review, rethink, reimagine
In Resilient Vermont Network talk, health care panel discusses telemedicine and other patient-serving adaptations
The coronavirus pandemic forced health care’s practitioners to be both in and on. “In” as in office for visits, routine and emergency; “on” as in on camera, to connect with far-off patients who are checking in from home.
A panel of experts — Norwich Nursing Director Paulette Thabault, Dr. Alissa Thomas, a neurologist and neuro-oncologist and an assistant professor at the University of Vermont Medical Center and Dr. Roshini Pinto-Powell, a professor of medicine and medical education and Dartmouth College’s Geisel School of Medicine — said Monday that the pandemic also had practitioners nationwide rethinking care’s delivery and newly embracing technology.