Medical Economics March 10, 2023
But in-person visits remain preferred form of care delivery, study finds
Telemedicine use among office-based doctors increased nearly six-fold after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and more than 80% say they plan to continue using it even after the pandemic has ended.
Those are among the findings of a newly-released study of telemedicine use conducted by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). The study showed that 87% of office-based physicians used telemedicine in 2021, compared with 15% in 2018 and 2019.
Despite that growth, in-person visits remained a far more common form of care delivery. Only 18% of doctors who used telemedicine said it accounted for half or more of their patient visits. By...
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