By Bruce Buckley
Nutrition support teams at Mayo Clinic and other health systems are applying the tools of telemedicine to an expanding array of clinical functions, including evaluating patients’ nutrition status, diagnosing probable cases of sarcopenia, assessing the severity of tube site infections, and repairing rather than replacing costly catheters that rupture.
“We’re looking to add some AI [artificial intelligence] as well,” said Ryan T. Hurt, MD, PhD, a professor