{"id":7056,"date":"2021-09-18T12:35:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T19:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=7056"},"modified":"2021-12-01T21:04:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T04:04:45","slug":"telehealth-in-the-palm-of-our-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2021\/09\/18\/telehealth-in-the-palm-of-our-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Telehealth in the Palm of our Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The readiness and affordances of telehealth have been an asset during the current global pandemic. Various apps are emerging that allow you to choose the preferred specialist, doctor, and appointment time from your phone screen. As a family that has been without a doctor for almost two years, it is a sigh of relief that we can build a relationship with a doctor and have a video conference when we consider whether healthcare has traditionally been equitable and accessible. With the persistent shortage and reach of doctors in Canada, I argue that the intersectionality of mobile technology and healthcare is a welcome innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iversoft.ca\/mobile-technology-in-the-medical-industry\/\">https:\/\/www.iversoft.ca\/mobile-technology-in-the-medical-industry\/<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/09\/Medical-and-Mobile-How-Telemedicine-Is-Transforming-The-Health-Care-Industry-1.png\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/09\/Medical-and-Mobile-How-Telemedicine-Is-Transforming-The-Health-Care-Industry-1.png\">https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/09\/Medical-and-Mobile-How-Telemedicine-Is-Transforming-The-Health-Care-Industry-1.png<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/09\/Medical-and-Mobile-How-Telemedicine-Is-Transforming-The-Health-Care-Industry-1-1-1024x601.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/09\/Medical-and-Mobile-How-Telemedicine-Is-Transforming-The-Health-Care-Industry-1-1-1024x601.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/09\/Medical-and-Mobile-How-Telemedicine-Is-Transforming-The-Health-Care-Industry-1-1-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/09\/Medical-and-Mobile-How-Telemedicine-Is-Transforming-The-Health-Care-Industry-1-1-768x451.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/09\/Medical-and-Mobile-How-Telemedicine-Is-Transforming-The-Health-Care-Industry-1-1.png 1276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The readiness and affordances of telehealth have been an asset during the current global pandemic. Various apps are emerging that allow you to choose the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2021\/09\/18\/telehealth-in-the-palm-of-our-hands\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Telehealth in the Palm of our Hands<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":58585,"featured_media":7059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[237,235,238,236],"class_list":["post-7056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobiletechnologies","tag-mobile-doctors","tag-telehealth","tag-telemedicine","tag-virtual-care","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7056"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7062,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056\/revisions\/7062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}