Adoption of Telemedicine in a Rural US Cancer Center Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Qualitative Study.

Matthew B Mackwood Rebecca L Butcher Danielle Vaclavik Jennifer A Alford-Teaster Kevin M Curtis Mary Lowry Tor D Tosteson Wenyan Zhao Anna N A Tosteson

Published in: JMIR cancer (2022)

In a setting of decentralized care processes, early challenges in telemedicine implementation had an outsized impact on the nature and amount of sustained use. Proactively designed telemedicine care processes with attention to patient needs will be essential to support a sustained role for telemedicine in cancer care.

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