Healthcare IT Today April 16, 2020
We all know that telehealth use has been mushrooming as providers struggle to address the demand for coronavirus care. However, the data is starting to come out on how much the use of telehealth has changed. These new studies look at the extent of telehealth use during the pandemic.
One physician-focused study comes from healthcare IT firm MTBC and their recently acquired CareCloud. The survey, the COVID-19 Practice Pulse, found that in-person appointment cancellations shot up starting in mid-March, especially in Pennsylvania (48%), followed by New York and California (both at 43%)
Meanwhile, telehealth appointments have increased by more than 200x as a percentage of all appointments, up from below 0.1% during the first week of March.
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