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From Surgeries To Keeping Company: The Place Of Robots In Healthcare

The Medical Futurist

With remote-controlled medical robots, caretakers can interact with their patients, check on their living conditions and the need for further appointments. It represents a significant rise from the start of 2020, which registered 80 such companies. The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine found in 2020 that 17.6% In the U.S.,

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

So delivering those month visits in clinic, often in tandem with their other oncology appointments. Lynn, what were you doing in Covid 2020? Lynn 37:35 I wasn’t doing outpatient in 2020. Eric 37:42 We did a massive switch to telemedicine. Eric 37:27 And then all of a sudden, like, we started doing all video visits.