4sight Health January 24, 2024
There’s an intriguing dance taking place right now among patients, physicians, telemedicine technology vendors, regulators and healthcare finance leaders. I’m not sure who will take the lead eventually, but it will be fascinating to watch.
Patients like the convenience of telemedicine. Doctors don’t like patients bugging them by phone, email or text. Telemedicine technology vendors salivate over the market potential of asynchronous physician-patient communication. Regulators want to proceed cautiously as they try to balance online visits with in-person visits. And healthcare finance leaders are calculating the profit possibilities from a more digital healthcare delivery system.
That’s my reading-between-the-lines takeaway from a short research letter published earlier this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Five researchers from the...
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