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The convenience and comfort telehealth delivers for managing nonurgent and routine care for mental health, chronic disease, or pain is too good to revert back to always in-person appointments. And telehealth is changing the way providers compete — every system is now in direct competition with an expanded list of players. It’s also changing the way consumers select providers. For example, they are moving their care to those that can provide their entire health history online.

The rate and scope of technology adoption in the healthcare process are hotly debated topics. These include the following in the case of refraction:

Pandemic-era telemedicine exceptions that currently allow telehealth prescription of Schedule II narcotics and stimulants without an initial in-person evaluation are to be ended on May 11.

On May 11th, the public health emergency that loosened some controls on telehealth and remote prescribing comes to an end. What will be the impact on telepsychiatry? Some of the flexibilities introduced by the Ryan Haught Act will continue, but others sunset, and practices will need to adjust.

Elham Hatef, MD, a clinical informatician at the Johns Hopkins Center for Population Health IT, discussed the findings of her recent study, “Outcomes of in-person and telehealth ambulatory encounters during COVID-19 within a large commercially insured cohort,” in this Q&A with Psych Congress Network.

Is there a link between climate change and poverty? Does hate affect the risk for chronic health conditions? Is telehealth the model for medicine’s future? Or will something much more ancient be reestablished? How will the Millennial worldview affect how medicine is practiced? This archive of top physician TED talks is worth your while.