Avatars, virtual waiting rooms, virtual scribes, in-home testing devices, "syndromatic" facial analysis using AI and machine learning, screen-sharing, and sentiment analysis...There are many exciting innovation possibilities on the horizon that will make telemedicine even more productive, informative, helpful and fun and personable, than current, in-person doctor visits.
Yaa Kumah-Crystal, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Biomedica Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, spoke at the Disruption Lab's series on the Future of Health Care. Dr. Kumah-Crystal defined telehealth as "care unbound by distance, physical location or setting."