mHealth Intelligence June 24, 2024
Most surgeons would not use telehealth for preoperative care, citing several concerns, including malpractice risk and reimbursement issues, a survey reveals.
New research shows that most surgeons are not open to using telehealth for preoperative visits, largely due to malpractice concerns; however, more than half said they would use telehealth for postoperative consultations.
Published in the journal Surgery, the study aimed to examine surgeons’ attitudes toward telehealth. Prior research has shown that surgical specialists are less likely to use telehealth than their peers. Data from the 2021 National Electronic Health Records Survey revealed that nearly half of surgical specialists (49.7 percent) indicated telehealth was inappropriate for their specialty or type of patients compared to 15.5 percent of primary care physicians...
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