Equity in Telemedicine
Online CME
Challenge your skills and grow your ability to provide equitable telemedicine care.
This single session explores the pros and cons of telemedicine in providing equitable care, including its effect—both positive and negative—on existing barriers to care.
- Examine how you currently provide telehealth services.
- Identify areas to improve yourself and your team.
- Provide more equitable care to your own patient population.
- Telemedicine
- Equitable access to care
Challenge your skills and grow your ability to provide equitable telemedicine care.
This single session explores the pros and cons of telemedicine in providing equitable care, including its effect—both positive and negative—on existing barriers to care.
- Examine how you currently provide telehealth services.
- Identify areas to improve yourself and your team.
- Provide more equitable care to your own patient population.
- Telemedicine
- Equitable access to care
Learning Objectives
Identify three benefits of telemedicine in providing equitable care.
Describe three challenges of telemedicine that present barriers to providing equitable care.
List three considerations that should be taken into account when designing an equitable telemedicine program.
Additional details
Lillian Holloway, MD
Dr. Lillian Holloway is a board-certified family physician who has dedicated her career to studying and addressing health inequities. She is a graduate of Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina in Havana, Cuba, and completed residency at The University of Illinois—Chicago, where she was honored with the distinctions of Health Disparities Scholar, Global Community Medicine Scholar and Chief Resident. Following residency, she has worked for The U.S. Department of Justice and Cook County Jail in Chicago, where she was recognized for her work on improving access to reproductive health care for people who are incarcerated.
AAFP’s Health Equity Fellowship is made possible through the financial support from the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation and the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors.