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# Sacramento Magazine | Virtual Visits

Sacramento Magazine explores how Sutter Health rapidly expanded virtual visits and telemedicine to safely deliver care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

September 9, 2020 by Sutter Health

Telemedicine isn’t new, but it is gaining new uses—and new participants—in the time of COVID-19.

It’s safe to say COVID-19 has upended all aspects of our society. But perhaps the one pushed to reinvent itself with warp speed is the field of medicine. Immediate effort went into treatment options and the chase for a vaccine, of course, but equally critical was limiting the spread of COVID-19 to other patients and staff. How do you safely deliver health care in the middle of a pandemic?

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