Asynchronous prescribing: Why the medical board is alarmed at the commercial misuse of telehealth

The care revolution in patients being treated over the phone or via video has a dark side.
The specialty has witnessed the proliferation of various entrepreneurial business — the so-called disruptors — whose business model is a mix of consumer convenience and what to the unwary looks like medicine’s easy street: those requests for ‘simple’ scripts or the ‘simple’ consult.