High efficiency vs. the personal connection: Experts debate the future of telemedicine

Telemedicine offers the promise of increased efficiency during patient care, but in-person evaluations and relationships are too valuable to completely disregard, according to a debate session at EULAR 2022 Congress.“The treat-to-target recommendations say that we should see patients regularly, especially when they have active disease, they should be seen quite frequently,” Christian Dejaco, MD, PhD, MBA, of the Medical University of Graz, in Austria, said during the virtual meeting. “Unfortunately, that is not the case in clinical practice. Telemedicine might be one of theRead More