Looking Forward?

As we get a handle on providing telehealth to our patients in an emergency situation, it is time now to explore how we will provide this care to our patients when the emergency is over. One day, we will return to standards of care in infection prevention and it will be “safe” to visit the optometrist’s office.

We will have schedules that are “booked out,” patients who arrive early or late and those who don’t understand their insurance benefits. As we imagine, getting back to “normal”, do you see intermingling some VAHoV’s into your day? Or having a doctor remote into your practice for comprehensive exams in another room?

As you consider building this new reality, read this interesting article about the telehealth after COVID from a legal perspective. No doubt, the world will be different, but there are many questions about how we will practice in it.