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Welcome
Telehealth care is an increasing component of pediatric
practice. Under pressure to limit office and emergency department utilization
and with increasing expectations for access by working parents, pediatricians
are finding themselves dispensing more and more advice over the telephone,
via e-mail visit, both during and after office hours. Practice surveys have reported that non-face-to-face
telephone care accounts for at least 20% of all general care in a pediatric
practice and as much as 80% of after-hours pediatric care. Faced with
the task of meeting the expectations of parents and health plans, pediatricians
find themselves compelled to manage complex medical problems over the
telephone, dedicate practice resource, and expose themselves to liability
risk with little assurances that these efforts will be compensated until now.
Given the multitude of pressures that pediatricians
and the health care system at large face, pediatricians are looking for
advice on how to provide high quality, safe, and efficient care via the
telehealth modalities.
The Section on Telehealth Care (SOTC) is the AAP home
for information on the delivery of pediatric care via e-mail, video conferencing, telephone care, telemedicine and other non-face-to-face technologies. Click on any of the items
below to learn more about the Section.
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