HealthExec May 23, 2023
Three years after the height of the COVID pandemic, new interviews with a large group of primary care physicians in the U.S. are providing valuable insight into how the implementation of telemedicine changed their scope of practice and how its use can be improved for the future.
The interviews were conducted with 25 leaders at primary care practices from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s PCORnet project. The providers’ responses highlighted four themes pertaining to telemedicine in primary care, each of them consistently portraying inconsistency as a glaring fault in almost every aspect of telehealth.
Details from the interviews were shared on May 21 in The Annals of Family Medicine, where experts involved in the work explained that many...