Thoughts Had ... Lessons Learned® The Future Ain't What It Used To Be

Why This Topic Matters

It helps readers understand the operational and compliance implications of remote staffing and telemedicine in a post-COVID healthcare setting, especially for physician practices evaluating how to adapt.

Article Sections

1. Telecommuting

   Introduces the article’s framing of remote work and the language used to describe it. It sets up the broader discussion of how work location and practice operations have changed.

2. COVID Catalyst

   Describes COVID as the major catalyst for changes in labor, healthcare delivery, and telemedicine adoption. It also summarizes general market and patient-access trends discussed by the author.

3. Patient Care Delivery Models

   Reviews how patient care delivery has been shifting toward telemedicine and related virtual service models. It discusses broad changes in technology, access, and practice operations.

4. Remotely Working

   Focuses on physician practice staffing, remote work locations, and the operational differences among broad staff groups. It also addresses general concerns that arise when practice work is performed outside the clinical site.

5. Remotely Working Factoids

   Examines practical issues affecting remote work in medical practices, including compliance and workforce management considerations. It highlights broader concerns about maintaining control, documentation, and oversight.

6. Where Is It All Going?

   Looks at future pressures on physician practices, including workforce availability, policy effects, and long-term operational change. It closes with a strategic view of how practices may need to adapt.

7. Conclusion

   Provides the author’s closing philosophy and general takeaway about teaching and adaptation. It ends with a brief invitation for feedback.