Healthcare IT News October 16, 2020
Kat Jercich

Clinicians, vendors and telehealth advocates stress the importance of virtual services in expanding access to care – and noted the ways it still needs to improve.

There’s no doubt that telehealth has proven to be an integral tool to keeping healthcare accessible amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Telehealth has continued to grow and has continued to really set the pace” for digital innovation, said CHIME president and CEO Russ Branzell. Though the coronavirus crisis has certainly sped up that process, he said, the foundation for such growth has been laid overtime by digital health leaders.

But other experts who spoke at this week’s HLTH VRTL 2020 conference reminded attendees, clinicians and innovators must be willing to think outside the box...

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