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long-distance by internal medicine physicians at provides a telemedicine training and consultation the College of Medicine and TMH – thanks to service to make integrated behavioral health passed a statute that defines telehealth and how it can be
telehealth. Besides Kroker-Bode, those physicians expertise available to students in the Gadsden used. Congress is slowly working on making Medicare
include Irene Alexandraki, Jonathan Appelbaum, school district who don’t have access to care. reimbursements for telehealth more reasonable. More and
Ingrid Jones-Ince, Ramiz Kseri, Susan Manson Students are identified through the migrant more physicians are coming around for medical, educational
and Stephen Sandroni. “I truly love it,” Kroker- education program and at the school-based clinics and practical reasons.
Bode said. “While I am in my office and doing with FSU faculty nurse-practitioners Susan the necessary administrative work, I can easily LaJoie and Julie Drude. telemedicine as a benefit,” said Michael Smith, the college’s
precept in between my residents with cases. I have
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Shenifa Taite, director of instructional design and telemedicine program development director. “That, in turn,
media production, and Niharika Suchak, Medicine makes patients more demanding of their physicians: ‘Why
telemedicine.” 1 course co-director, have been exploring how do I have to take four hours off work so that I can sit in your
In some cases, the technological reach extends far best to incorporate telehealth into the M.D. and office for two hours to see you for 10 minutes? Something’s
more than a few miles. Mridul Mazumder, the PA curricula, faculty development and graduate wrong with this.’”
geriatrics clerkship director for the Tallahassee medical education.
day per month in a consultant capacity, when
they’re referred by their provider. He’s at the
central campus, and the patients are at Advent
Christian Village in Live Oak. That used to be a
150-mile round trip for College of Medicine faculty
members who started filling in when the facility
lost its primary-care physician. Now it involves no
travel at all.
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“In Florida, many employers are already offering
even directed a very small surgical procedure via
Regional Campus, sees geriatric patients half a
Elena Reyes is even farther away. As the College
of Medicine’s regional director in Southwest
Florida, she has been using “tele-psych.” Her
Center for Child Stress and Health in Immokalee
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After years of proposals, Florida legislators finally