HealthTech November 30, 2023
Specialists continue to transform telehealth to provide more accessible and personalized care.
Providers in specialized areas of healthcare were actively using telehealth long before the COVID-19 pandemic. One report found that, by 2018, telehealth was most often used by radiology, psychiatry and cardiology.
Once general practitioners and their patients started to rely on virtual care more widely, its benefits became more apparent. More than 20 percent of adults used telehealth from 2021 to 2022, according to research from a federal policy advisory group. Still, key lessons have emerged from the growth in telehealth for specialty care.
For instance, Florida-based Moffitt Cancer Center found that telehealth offered cancer patients cost and time savings. Anecdotal evidence from the National Cancer Institute at...