1 week ago Share Although the arrival of a vaccine promises to bring an end to the pandemic, increased use of telehealth is likely here to stay. by: Vittorio Nastasi and Adrian Moore
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many aspects of daily life but has also accelerated emerging trends and innovations particularly in the health care sector. For example, social distancing measures and stay-at-home orders led to a rapid increase in the use of telehealth in 2020.
As Johns Hopkins Medicine points out, telehealth can have many benefits, including:
Allowing sick or injured people to stay home and avoid the discomfort of traveling while sick, reducing the number of healthy people they might expose to contagion while traveling to an appointment (this was crucial during the pandemic);
The measure is backed by the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Florida Public Defenders Association. The Florida Police Chief Association had opposed the measure at a previous committee stop.
“The government should have to meet the same standards and processes for accessing our personal information in the digital form as the constitution set out for information when it existed only in hard copy,” Vittorio Nastasi of the Reason Foundation told the panel.
SB 144 would establish as a legislative finding that Floridians “should not have to choose between using household technological enhancements and conveniences or preserving the right to privacy in one’s home.”
Print this article New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a daily briefing following the outbreak of the coronavirus in New York City, July 13, 2020.
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Command and control is no way to run an economy. And the more centralized it is, the worse it becomes. We will doubtless be getting a taste of just how bad a system it can be if too many of the promises/threats contained in the Green New Deal are implemented in the next few years, but in the meantime, New York’s COVID-19 vaccination program is showing signs of the damage that over-centralization and bureaucratic overreach can bring in their wake.