Enhancing Digital Empathy and Reimagining the Telehealth Experience
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Patient Centricity, Patient Perspective, Digital Empathy, Telehealth LiteracyAbstract
As telehealth is increasingly adopted across all care settings, it is important to understand how clinicians can adapt and respond to patient needs. Drawing from experiences of a virtual primary care physician and a patient advocate, this Perspectives editorial provides additional insights beyonds the telehealth basics for establishing digital empathy and a remote therapeutic connection.
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