Christopher Sharp: COVID-19 and the rise of televisits (2020) by Stanford Medicine published on 2020-04-02T21:10:08Z To slow the spread of COVID-19, Stanford Medicine clinicians and patients are taking the traditional office visit online. At 3,000 per day, televisits now make up 40% of all clinical visits at Stanford Health Care, 50 times higher than prior months. And at Stanford Children’s Health, clinicians conducted 500 in one day. Before COVID-19 hit California, it was 35. In this podcast Christopher Sharp, MD, discusses the spike and how telehealth is helping stem the pandemic. Sharp is a clinical professor of primary care and population health and chief medical information officer at Stanford Health Care. *For more information, visit med.stanford.edu/covid19 Genre Science & Medicine
