When the first patients with COVID-19 arrived, it quickly became clear that health care providers needed safer ways to involve everyone in their care while limiting in-person meetings or large gatherings. ![]() The quick response, or QR, code - that square barcode symbol used by smartphone apps to link users with specific information - became an unexpected but essential tool for patient care at Boston Children’s Hospital in early spring. (Image: Adobe Stock/Illustration: David Chrisom, Boston Children's) Using QR codes and the Zoom virtual meeting app, Boston Children's developed a new way to include physicians, patients, and their families in virtual telehealth meetings.
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