mHealth Intelligence June 6, 2024
Mental healthcare remained a top use case for telehealth in 2021, even as telehealth utilization declined from pandemic highs, new research shows.
New data reveals that in 2021, 43.2 percent of psychiatrist visits occurred via telehealth versus 4.5 percent of visits to other physicians, highlighting telemental healthcare’s enduring popularity after the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the study examined telehealth use in 2021 when in-person care had resumed following restrictions in 2020. Researchers from the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) conducted the assessment using the 2021 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), a nationally representative survey of the civilian population and clinicians.
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