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As an industry, healthcare remains one of the most important services provided across all societies. Information sharing, and knowledge creation are the underlying forces for transformative changes in healthcare. One of the major problems with efforts to extend virtual care delivery is insufficient formal training provided to physicians and clinical providers. Such knowledge is central to supporting the effectiveness of new care delivery models. All clinicians across specialties will require training in “virtualist” skills to meet the demands of digitally empowered patients in addition to effectively providing adequate education to those with low levels of health and technology literacy. Healthcare systems must augment the skills and capabilities of existing professionals with virtualist training to deliver care in the new digital age of medicine.
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The author wishes to acknowledge the contributions of the following individuals in assisting efforts to frame the approach toward the development and deployment of effective virtual care training: John Austin, Ph.D. (Fielding Graduate University), Anita Chambers (Odulair, Inc.), Linda Durnell, Ph.D. (Fielding Graduate University), Susan Fenton, Ph.D. (University of Texas Health at Houston), Rosemary Glavan, RN (Independent Consultant), Rebecca Hafner, MD (Zipnosis, Inc.), Gary Hare, Ph.D. (Fielding Graduate University), Joseph Kvedar, MD (Partners Healthcare Center for Connected Health), Joseph Nichols, MD (The MITRE Corporation), Wayne Patterson, Ph.D. (Howard University), Katrina Rogers, Ph.D. (Fielding Graduate University), David Schmitz, MD (University of North Dakota), Donald Warne, MD, Ph.D. (University of North Dakota); and, Joshua Wynne, MD (University of North Dakota).
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Fickenscher, K., Pagliaro, J.A. (2021). Education in Virtual Care Delivery: Clinician Education and Digital Health Literacy. In: Bhatt, A.B. (eds) Healthcare Information Technology for Cardiovascular Medicine. Health Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81030-6_9
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