Field Guide to Telehealth and Telemedicine for Nurse Practitioners and Other Healthcare Providers

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"Patients became responsible for monitoring their own blood pressures and glucose readings in a way they had never been responsible for previously. Patients who, under normal circumstances, would be admitted to the hospital without question were being discharged home, some even on oxygen or with bilateral pneumonia. How to manage a patient with mild hypoxemia from home when that patient cannot come to the office for periodic pulse oximetry monitoring? We found a smartphone application that offered pulse and pulse oximetry using their phone's camera"-- Provided by publisher