mHealth Intelligence January 17, 2024
Most older adults use direct-to-consumer services for prescriptions, but survey results show that a third do not inform their regular PCPs of the new medications.
Though a small proportion of older adults use direct-to-consumer (DTC) mHealth services, one-third do not share that information with their primary care physician (PCP), new survey results released by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation (IHPI) show.
Conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago for IHPI, the survey was administered online and via phone in July and August 2023. The survey polled 2,657 adults aged 50 to 80, of which 168 reported having used a DTC healthcare service. These services include DTC telehealth and e-prescription sites, subscription-based mHealth apps, and...
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