Managed Healthcare Executive February 4, 2021
Trends show how telemedicine has been used during the COVID-19 pandemic.
There is no question telehealth use has boomed amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, investigators are probing data for patterns of usage that will yield insights into the boom and future use of the technology.
A team of Harvard investigators, including Ateev Mehrotra, a member of the Managed Healthcare Executive® editorial advisory board, found 30.1% of all visits were provided through telemedicine and the weekly number of visits increased twenty-three-fold compared with before the pandemic. The team examined the variation in total outpatient visits and telemedicine use across patient demographics, specialties, and conditions in a database of 16.7 million commercially insured and Medicare Advantage enrollees from January...
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