Recommended Reading: Preparing for Telemedicine Appointments

This local institution had already been using Open Notes to document and share physician notes with patients. Now, they have taken it a step further with a wonderful project to help patients prepare for telemedicine appointments. Read more here.


Surgeon and best-selling author Atul Gawande offers lessons for re-opening from places that never locked down to begin with: hospitals.

His four-point approach is a “combination therapy,” and includes elements with which we are all familiar: hygiene measures, screening, distancing and masks. Culture is the fifth (and arguably the most difficult) pillar of a new combination therapy to stop the coronavirus.


Those who overcome adversity understand that while there is a lot they cannot control, they can — and should — pay attention disproportionately to those things within their area of influence.

Learn more in this terrific interview with Angela Duckworth , author of “Grit.”