Chapter 25. Virtual Teams in Medical Care Delivery

Steven K. Rothschild, Stan Lapidos

Four factors—demographic, epidemiological, systemic, and economic—represent a converging perfect storm threatening the current and future capacity of the United States to address the challenges and problems facing its health care system. The development and application of virtual teams represent one possible approach to meet these challenges. This chapter describes why the challenging and complex demographic, economic, epidemiological, and structural factors and forces affecting health care necessitate alternative strategies to achieve meaningful improvements in health care access, quality, and outcomes. One of these strategies may be the wider application of ...

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