I’m a Nurse Practitioner and I love me some telemed. Prior to going to school to be an NP, I actually wanted to do house calls. For the convenience to the patient and I even did a house call clinical rotation. I still think that’s better than the now accepted doctor’s office model but telemedicine is even more convenient. A lot of what you do with your provider is based on interview or review of diagnostic tests vs actual physical exam. If you don’t literally need to be looked at, that visit can be a tele visit. Of course there are limitations with things like annual physicals which do require a thorough exam. But a lot of visits can be completed as a televisit and this increases to just about 100% when it comes to psych visits. Very rarely does a person need to physically come to the office for one of these visits.

The real newest trend though is asynchronous. Where you place a request with a provider over some platform. They review and either fill a medication for you, ask for more info or deny you based on info you provided. I see that expanding greatly in the future.