Background: As COVID-19 spread across the globe, hospitals restricted visitors in an attempt to protect patients and healthcare providers. The absence of in-person visitors and loved ones, who play a central role in clinical decision-making by clarifying medical histories, elucidating patients’ baseline status, and bridging linguistic and cultural divides, left patients vulnerable to social isolation, [...]

Background: During the COVID19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and US Department of Health and Human Services liberalized guidelines to allow for broader access to telehealth services. Previously the use of telehealth platforms in hospital and by the hospitalists has been limited. Purpose: Describe rapid implementation of an interprofessional, inpatient, secure telehealth [...]