Fierce Health Payers August 25, 2020
Jon Bloom, M.D., Podimetrics

There have been serious questions about whether the recent boom in virtual care is just a blip.

And those concerns are valid. After all, what good is a new type of healthcare if it’s not expanding access to the patients who are hardest to reach?

When people question virtual care, however, they tend to be talking about one-to-one models of care, like video chats or phone calls. Whether or not we are in a pandemic, doctors only have so much time in a day for solo interactions with their patients, and it’s not always the right care at the right time for a particular patient.

What’s more, not everyone has access to this type of virtual care, with the...

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