The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has announced a partnership with virtual healthcare technology firm Zipnosis which will deploy a telehealth platform to the Academy’s 129,000 members. The partnership is primarily founded in the results of a 2017 AAFP survey which revealed that many members wanted a telemedicine module addressing the unique needs of family physicians. “Patients today want quick and easy access to health care, but that convenience shouldn’t come at the cost of the relationship they have with their family physician. Offering this new telemedicine platform gives our family physician members another tool through which they can care for patients,” said Steven Waldren, M.D., Director of the AAFP’s Alliance for eHealth Innovation.

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