Table 3.

Suggestions for practice and policy.

Provide ongoing access to telehealth as an option for kidney transplant recipients in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas (including after the COVID‐19 pandemic)

Establish familiarity and rapport between the patient and transplant nephrologist prior to the commencement of telehealth

Provide training and resources to ensure patients have the technical capabilities for telehealth

Optimized telehealth technology in hospitals

Provide training for clinicians on how to conduct a telehealth consult and communicate health information digitally

Ensure technical support/training is available to both hospitals and patients

If telehealth appointment cannot occur due to technical issues, suggest an immediate phone consult and follow‐up sooner with a telehealth appointment

Prepare and provide an information sheet to patients about what to have ready for a telehealth appointment including what measurements to have ready

Provide a written summary of what was said during the telehealth appointment

Multidisciplinary approach to include multiple specialist clinicians on a telehealth call with a single patient for complex cases