Left: Credit: Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong The quote I like to cite is that we advanced 10 years in telehealth progress in the course of 10 weeks, and it s pretty accurate, Colin Banas, MD, chief medical officer of health care software company DrFirst, which helps connect patients to health care providers, tells
Health. I think a lot of this would have taken a lot longer had it not been for the crisis.
Telemedicine is clearly a hit with patients. In April, 44% of Medicare primary care visits were done via telehealth, compared with less than one percent (0.1%) in February before the COVID-19 public health emergency, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services. Both rural and urban counties nationwide saw upticks in telehealth adoption and usage, and even after Medicare resumed in-person primary care visits last May, demand for telehealth stayed steady. One 2020 report from the health care network Do
The College of the Florida mass vaccination site will be operational this weekend keysnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from keysnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The College of the Florida Keys has partnered with Florida Department of Health in Monroe County for the college in Key West to be a mass COVID-19 vaccination site, with shots being administered there on Sunday.
The 400 vaccinations on Sunday are by appointment only, and the college is working off the Health Departmentâs application list. The college will be calling people to confirm they are on the list, according to CFK spokeswoman Amber Ernst-Leonard. Doctors and medical staff and people older than 65 are the only ones receiving the vaccine at this time.
The vaccinations will be done by 38 nursing students and seven college employees, according to Ernst-Leonard.