Healthcare Innovation August 29, 2024
Mental healthcare has the highest telehealth usage rate and the highest no-show odds, researchers report
NPJ Digital Medicine published the results of a study on telehealth disparities across specialties on August 21. Researchers found that “telehealth encounters were associated with reduced no-show odds compared to in-person encounters.”
The report explained that researchers performed a retrospective analysis of electronic health records (EHRs) from a network of hospitals in Illinois, examining telehealth use and no-shows among 444,752 adult patients with 1,973,098 outpatient encounters across nine specialties during the sustained pandemic phase (i.e., January 1, 2021, to July 1, 2022)....
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