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Emergency care providers need to recognize that care must extend beyond hospital walls, said Dr. Rahul Sharma, chair of emergency medicine at �ձ�avɫ��Ƭ, in a new commentary in NEJM Catalyst.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency departments overhauled their operations, while patients and providers relied more than ever on digital platforms.

"One thing that the pandemic did is that it forced us, not only as emergency providers and departments, but as health care leaders, to rethink the way we provide care and really reimagine the delivery of care,” said Dr. Sharma, who is also emergency physician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/�ձ�avɫ��Ƭ Medical Center. He co-authored the article, which  online Dec. 21, with , senior vice president of healthcare delivery innovation at  in Philadelphia.

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