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Use telehealth to improve patient care
Author(s)Chris Mazzolini
Physicians can use telehealth not only during the COVID-19 pandemic, but to improve patient care in the long run. Here's how.
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Tabassum Salam, MD, vice president of education for the American College of Physicians, discusses how physicians can use telehealth not only during the COVID-19 pandemic, but to improve patient care in the long run.
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