Shadow pharmacies peddling bogus COVID cures; hospitals receive cash injection

Fakeeh Care Group CIO Dr Tamara Sunbul shares how hospitals can unlock virtual wards' potential to improve bed turnover.

Follow-up appointments, transitional care when there’s the risk of readmission, benefit patients and can be done by telehealth, says Dr. Matthew Thompson, an ER physician and the CEO and cofounder of Telescope Health.

The federal program could be a short-term patch for struggling rural hospitals or the last chance to move rural healthcare onto a model that works at scale. Michael Dalton of non-profit virtual care provider Ovatient explains.