{"title":"Response to Commentaries on Virtual Care as of the Sixth Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"William Falk","doi":"10.12927/hcpap.2022.26955","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This is a brief response to the nine commentaries on my paper regarding virtual care as of the sixth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (Falk 2022). Virtual care and its digital support infrastructure have had an iterative developmental path since the arrival of the pandemic in early 2020. Real-time policy making has been the norm in the field, and iteration by thoughtful opinion leaders seems a sensible way of continuing to move the discussion forward.</p>","PeriodicalId":35522,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare Papers","volume":"20 4","pages":"83-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Healthcare Papers","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.12927/hcpap.2022.26955","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This is a brief response to the nine commentaries on my paper regarding virtual care as of the sixth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (Falk 2022). Virtual care and its digital support infrastructure have had an iterative developmental path since the arrival of the pandemic in early 2020. Real-time policy making has been the norm in the field, and iteration by thoughtful opinion leaders seems a sensible way of continuing to move the discussion forward.
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Integrating community-based health and social care has grabbed international attention as a way of addressing the needs of aging populations while contributing to health systems" sustainability. However, integrating initiatives in different jurisdictions work (or do not work) within very various.