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COVID-19 Forced Healthcare Professionals to Work Through and

          Around Historical Obstacles to Telemedicine




              Historical Obstacles               1                                  COVID-19 Challenges                  2


              •    Healthcare professional                                          •     Limit exposures of patients

                   unwillingness to change practice                                       and healthcare workers to
                                                                                          SARS-CoV-2
              •    Reimbursement issues

                                                                                    •     Preserve critically needed
              •    Legal considerations
                                                                                          hospital resources

              •    Lack of evidence support
                   effectiveness/efficiency


              •    Not right for all patients or
                   situations







       1.  Turcotte B, Paquet S, Blais AS, et al. A prospective, multisite study analyzing the percentage of urological cases that can be completely managed by telemedicine. Can Urol Assoc J. 2020 Oct;14(10):319-321.
       2.  Kokorovic, A., So, A. I., Hotte, et al. (2020). A Canadian framework for managing prostate cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic: Recommendations from the Canadian Urologic Oncology Group and the Canadian
         Urological Association. Canadian Urological Association Journal, 14(6), 163-8.                                                      15
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