Goals need to be established for telehealth programs

Before implementing a telehealth program, it is important to know what problem needs to be solved and to have a concrete goal to achieve.
“The ‘why’ is really important,” April Maa, MD, said at the American Glaucoma Society meeting.
Once the goal is clear, physicians can move to the planning phase to figure out “what model we are going to use, what kind of equipment is required, who’s going to gather the data for us and what kind of training is needed.”
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