All Posts: telehealth

• COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted Behavioral Health in D.C. and Drove Significant Growth in Telehealth Care

  The COVID-19 pandemic drove an increased demand for behavioral health services, but thanks to an increase in the availability of telehealth services, a greater number of residents successfully accessed virtual care during the pandemic than in years prior, according to a new report commissioned by the Office of the D.C. Auditor (ODCA).

  Category: News Release Tags: Behavioral Health, COVID-19, District of Columbia, mental health, pandemic, public health, telehealth

• It Takes a Virtual Village: Educators, Patient Actors and Medical Students Build Connections with Telehealth Training

  (June 26, 2020) — Just as medical practices rapidly transitioned to deliver health care remotely in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, medical school faculty and administrators at Georgetown quickly integrated a telehealth training component into newly developed two-week virtual clerkships in pediatrics, OB-GYN, medicine and surgery for third-year medical students. In addition, rising fourth-year […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: medical education, patient care, School of Medicine, telehealth

• Cancer Genetic Counseling in the Time of COVID-19

  (May 28, 2020) — It may be hard to believe, but as recently as 2014, the idea of delivering genetic counseling for familial cancer risk remotely instead of in-person was quite controversial. Without data about whether this service could be provided effectively and without adverse effects, many genetic counselors were hesitant to adopt it and […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: COVID-19, genetic counseling, genetic testing, Georgetown Lombardi, telehealth, telephone genetic counseling