MedPage Today August 4, 2020
Telemedicine is increasingly seen as a key component of healthcare in the future, but many older adults are being left behind, a pair of studies in JAMA Internal Medicine suggested.
More than 41% of Medicare beneficiaries lacked access to a computer with high-speed Internet access at home, reported Eric Roberts, PhD, of University of Pittsburgh, and Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, of Harvard Medical School. Nearly as many didn’t have a smartphone with a wireless data plan, and one out of four didn’t have either option.
And more than one-third of those older than 65 may have trouble with video telehealth visits, because they’re inexperienced with technology and/or have disabilities that interfere with it, according to Kenneth Lam, MD, of the...
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