Telemedicine has rapidly transformed healthcare delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic, but innovative reimbursement models and updated privacy regulations are needed to ensure widespread implementation of high-quality digital care.

IRB experts share the ways in which the pandemic has spurred innovation in their institutions.

Communication, stress, and anxiety were top concerns for IRB leaders and staff during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

IRB leaders describe the challenges staff faced during the transition to remote working.

It is clear that clinical trials now exist in a different world from what researchers, IRBs, and sponsors experienced in 2019. The key challenges are how to restart clinical trials, how to return to in-person visits, and how to manage the growing number of studies related to COVID-19.

The combination of a highly infectious virus and a frail resident population in a closed environment — where infection control has been historically difficult to implement — has resulted in devastating outbreaks of COVID-19 in U.S. nursing homes.

Case managers faced many challenges in helping patients during the COVID-19 crisis, including connecting homeless patients to care and resources.

Family planning clinics and other reproductive health providers have discovered creative ways to continue to provide contraception services to women during the COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth is one of the most important methods, although each facility has its own way of using remote services.