Medical Economics May 10, 2022
Richard Payerchin

Study asserts 2020 data shows potential for telehealth to improve equity for Black patients.

Telehealth could be a “potential long-term tool for equity” for Black patients in primary care, according to a new study.

When COVID-19 caused medical office closures in 2020, online services rose sharply and closed gaps in health care access for Black patients in the Penn Medicine system around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. When “normal” in-office visits resumed, historic inequities stayed erased, according to researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

“We looked through the entire year of 2020, not just the first half of the year when telemedicine was the only option for many people, and the appointment completion gap between Black and...

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Topics: Digital Health, Equity/SDOH, Health IT, Healthcare System, Patient / Consumer, Primary care, Provider, Survey / Study, Technology, Telehealth, Trends
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