20 takeaways from Health Affairs’ telehealth issue

The journal Health Affairs is widely regarded as a key forum for conversations about health policy. This month, Health Affairs published a special issue with 20 research papers, editorials and analyses around the broad topic of telehealth, including synchronous and asynchronous telemedicine as well as remote patient monitoring.

Of note, the journal is not a cheerleader for the field; in fact, it’s the journal that published the controversial RAND Corporation study that suggested telemedicine doesn’t actually save money.

In this month’s issue, many of the studies looking at telehealth adoption told the same story in different contexts: The...