Telemedicine and digital health are on the rise. Additionally, as the medical field advances, more and more specialties are being added to the mix.
These factors prompted two physicians — Michael Nochomovitz and Rahul Sharma — to pen a JAMA viewpoint article on the potential behind a new specialty: the medical virtualist.
“This term could be used to describe physicians who will spend the majority or all of their time caring for patients using a virtual medium,” the authors wrote.