Forbes July 12, 2024
The percentage of U.S. hospitals offering telemedicine services sharply rose between 2017 and 2021, according to the results of a new study. In 2017, the percentage of hospitals offering at least one telemedicine was 46%, rising to 72% in 2021.
The study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine was conducted between 2017 and 2022, encompassing the critical stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. The number of individual telemedicine encounters soured from 114million in 2020 to 194.4 million in 2021 as the Covid-19 pandemic forced providers to quickly pivot to virtual care in many scenarios.
“Our findings demonstrate the rapid acceleration of telemedicine adoption, particularly in response to the Covid-19 pandemic,” said John Jiang, PhD, Professor of accounting and information...
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