Managed Healthcare Executive October 12, 2021
Before the pandemic, rural areas were ahead in telehealth adoption. That has changed during the pandemic, most obviously because many rural residents don’t have access to broadband.
One of the truisms of the COVID-19 pandemic is that it has led to much broader adoption of telehealth and with that, perhaps greater access to healthcare. The “talk therapy” aspects of mental healthcare seem particularly well suited to telehealth and many of the overall numbers about usage and uptake bear that out.
But access to telehealth is far from uniform and a rural–urban difference has emerged during the pandemic, according to a recent Health Affairs blog post written by Ateev Mehrotra, M.D., an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and a member...
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