(UroToday.com) The recent COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the importance of remote interactions, as facilitated through telemedicine. However, there is a pre-existing need for remote care delivery. In a session of the Best Poster Presentations in Health Services and Other Research at this year’s Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO) virtual annual meeting, Dr. Gadzinski pointed out that nearly one-fifth of all Americans live in rural communities and experience significant barriers to accessing specialized cancer care, including the distance required to travel. Notably, he highlighted that 60% of all counties, and approximately 47 million Americans, do not have a urologist geographically available.

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