mHealth Intelligence February 7, 2024
A majority of primary and specialty care physicians believe telehealth and in-person care quality are similar versus only half of surgical specialists.
More than two-thirds of primary care physicians and medical specialists said they were able to provide similar quality of care via telehealth and in person, making them more likely to be satisfied with telehealth technology than surgical specialists, new federal data shows.
Published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), the data was gathered from the 2021 National Electronic Health Records Survey. The annual survey polls office-based physicians, except those specializing in anesthesiology, radiology, and pathology, practicing in the United States. The 2021 survey sampled 10,302 physicians, of which...