Virtual Reality: Diabetes Care During COVID-19 and Beyond

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We are in a whole new world of virtual reality.

I was doing telehealth before the arrival of COVID-19, but I wasn't all that good at it. It wasn't something that I did often, and I always felt sort of discombobulated and clunky doing it.

Now, suddenly, we are doing pretty much all of our visits via telehealth. I still don't feel all that fluent at doing telehealth visits, but I'm getting better.

Advance Preparation Is Key

What are some things I've learned? First, you and your patients have to be organized. My patients who are on devices are encouraged to upload everything they can in advance. Otherwise, you don't have the data you need to help manage patients. I try to make sure that my patients and I can see the data on the screen and each other; I like being able to show the data to my patients, and it allows me to have visits that are much like the visits I used to have in person. However, each visit takes more time because the previsit organization takes more time.