{"id":15758,"date":"2019-09-24T12:12:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T16:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=15758"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:17","slug":"technology-supports-virtual-care-at-michigan-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/09\/24\/technology-supports-virtual-care-at-michigan-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology supports Virtual Care at Michigan Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tejasvi-Trilok-4-1024x681-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15759\"\/><figcaption>Trilok Tejasvi, MBBS (Michigan Medicine Headlines)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What exactly is \u201cvirtual care?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps you envision someone sitting at home on the couch, clutching a box of tissues in one hand and FaceTime\/Skype chatting with their doctor in the other? Or a parent on the phone with the pediatrician\u2019s office, hoping to find out why their child\u2019s fever isn\u2019t responding to over-the-counter medications?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although these are good guesses (with some truth in both depictions), those scenarios don\u2019t cover the majority of what \u201cvirtual care\u201d encompasses at Michigan Medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cVirtual Care is the remote delivery of health care services and clinical information using telecommunications technology such as telephones, computers, email, webcams and mobile devices,\u201d said Larry An, M.D., associate professor of internal medicine and medical director of the Michigan Medicine Virtual Care Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mmheadlines.org\/2019\/09\/meet-michigan-medicine-virtual-care-program\/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&amp;utm_source=Newsletter_20190924&amp;utm_medium=email\">Read the full article on Michigan Medicine Headlines<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What exactly is \u201cvirtual care?\u201d Perhaps you envision someone sitting at home on the couch, clutching a box of tissues in one hand and FaceTime\/Skype chatting with their doctor in the other? Or a parent on the phone with the pediatrician\u2019s office, hoping to find out why their child\u2019s fever isn\u2019t responding to over-the-counter medications? Although these are\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/09\/24\/technology-supports-virtual-care-at-michigan-medicine\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":15759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[51,402,539],"class_list":["post-15758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","category-projects-services","tag-medical","tag-michigan-medicine","tag-telehealth"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tejasvi-Trilok-4-1024x681-e1569344105700.jpg",600,399,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tejasvi-Trilok-4-1024x681-200x133.jpg",200,133,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tejasvi-Trilok-4-1024x681-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tejasvi-Trilok-4-1024x681-768x511.jpg",665,442,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tejasvi-Trilok-4-1024x681-700x466.jpg",600,399,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tejasvi-Trilok-4-1024x681-e1569344105700.jpg",600,399,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tejasvi-Trilok-4-1024x681-e1569344105700.jpg",600,399,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tejasvi-Trilok-4-1024x681-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tejasvi-Trilok-4-1024x681-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tejasvi-Trilok-4-1024x681-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tejasvi-Trilok-4-1024x681-665x442.jpg",665,442,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tejasvi-Trilok-4-1024x681-e1569344105700.jpg",376,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Heather Kipp, HITS Communications","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/hengeshl\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"What exactly is \u201cvirtual care?\u201d Perhaps you envision someone sitting at home on the couch, clutching a box of tissues in one hand and FaceTime\/Skype chatting with their doctor in the other? 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