• Anne Haulman, Andrew Geronimo, Amit Chahwala, and Zachary Simmons.
• Department of Neurology, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
• Muscle Nerve. 2020 Jun 1; 61 (6): 682-691.

AbstractTelehealth has the potential to improve the efficiency of healthcare while reducing the burden on patients and caregivers. Encounters can be synchronous or asynchronous. When used for care of those with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) by individual health care providers or by a multidisciplinary team, synchronous telehealth is feasible, acceptable, may produce outcomes comparable to those of in-person care, and is cost effective. Individuals with ALS who use telehealth tend to have lower physical and respiratory function and to live farther from an ALS clinic than those who exclusively attend in-person clinic visits. Asynchronous telehealth can be used as a substitute full multidisciplinary visits, or for remote monitoring of pulmonary function, gait/falls, and speech. Barriers to implementing telehealth on a wider scale include disparities in access to technology and challenges surrounding medical licensure and billing, but these are being addressed.© 2020 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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