October 15, 2020
Joint Commission issues new Quick Safety on telehealth
Editor's Note
The Joint Commission on October 7 issued a new Quick Safety that focuses on the use of telehealth to deliver patient care while preventing exposure to COVID-19.
Other benefits of telehealth in the Quick Safety include:
- promoting social distancing
- monitoring the progression of home-quarantined COVID-19 patients
- enabling providers who are quarantined but asymptomatic to provide care remotely
- reducing the use of PPE
- helping patients with transportation barriers connect with care providers.
Widespread use of telehealth was enabled by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in April 2020 (retroactive to March 1) and will last until the end of the emergency declaration.
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