As an endocrinologist with Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health, Dr. Dave Newman knows firsthand how important it is to meet patients where they are. For one routine appointment in fall 2025, his patient (a farmer) never left the cab of his combine. “It was the middle of harvest season,” Newman says, “and he was in the field sunup to sundown.” Rather than make the patient travel for hours from his farm to a Sanford clinic in Fargo, N.D., they opted for a virtual visit. “We went over his conditions, I refilled his medications, and it saved him from the stress of worrying about how he was…