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Virtual Visits for Care of Patients with Heart Failure in the Era of COVID-19: A Statement from the Heart Failure Society of America
- Source :
- Journal of Cardiac Failure
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, US federal and state governments have implemented wide-ranging stay-at-home recommendations as a means to reduce spread of infection. As a consequence, many US healthcare systems and practices have curtailed ambulatory clinic visits-pillars of care for patients with heart failure (HF). In this context, synchronous audio/video interactions, also known as virtual visits (VVs), have emerged as an innovative and necessary alternative. This scientific statement outlines the benefits and challenges of VVs, enumerates changes in policy and reimbursement that have increased the feasibility of VVs during the COVID-19 era, describes platforms and models of care for VVs, and provides a vision for the future of VVs.
- Subjects :
- Telemedicine
Pneumonia, Viral
MEDLINE
Context (language use)
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Reimbursement Mechanisms
03 medical and health sciences
Betacoronavirus
0302 clinical medicine
Ambulatory care
Pandemic
medicine
Ambulatory Care
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Pandemics
Health policy
Reimbursement
Societies, Medical
Heart Failure
business.industry
SARS-CoV-2
Health Policy
COVID-19
medicine.disease
United States
Heart failure
Medical emergency
business
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Coronavirus Infections
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15328414
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of cardiac failure
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....152bdc0bbe16a44a59d0837c939fc44d