Aspire Allergy & Sinus, San Antonio, Tex; Department of Pediatrics, Long Medical School, San Antonio, Tex.
Department of Pediatrics, Allergy & Immunology Division, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children's Research Institute, Little Rock, Ark.
J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2022 Oct;10(10):2507-2513.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jaip.2022.06.025. Epub 2022 Jun 29.
Secondary to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, telehealth quickly peaked as the dominant health care modality and its use still remains high. Although allergists and health care systems adapted quickly to adopt telehealth, its increased use has both highlighted its benefits for patients and allergists and demonstrated known concerns with delivering allergy specialty care to rural and regional patient populations. With increased concentration of both patients and allergists in urban areas, the ability to provide allergy specialty care to the rural and remote population continues to remain a challenge despite the advantages leveraged through telehealth. Herein, we review aspects specific to the rural patient population, tele-allergy outcomes with these patient cohorts, and efforts, both past and present, taken at different levels within the allergy community to promote our specialty through specific telehealth modalities to address and engage the rural and regional patient.
继发于 2019 年冠状病毒病大流行，远程医疗迅速成为主要的医疗模式，其使用仍然很高。尽管过敏学家和医疗保健系统迅速适应采用远程医疗，但它的广泛使用不仅突出了它对患者和过敏学家的好处，也显示了向农村和地区患者群体提供过敏专科护理的已知问题。随着患者和过敏学家在城市地区的集中程度增加，尽管通过远程医疗利用了优势，但向农村和偏远地区人口提供过敏专科护理的能力仍然是一个挑战。在此，我们回顾了农村患者群体的具体方面、这些患者群体的远程过敏结果，以及过敏界在不同层面上为通过特定远程医疗模式促进我们的专业发展以解决和吸引农村和地区患者而做出的过去和现在的努力。
