Medical Economics January 12, 2021
Todd Shryock

The pandemic brought telehealth into the mainstream, but will government and private payers make the right moves to make it a standard part of medicine?

The pandemic took what was mostly niche telehealth technology and brought it to a much larger patient population. Without it, many primary care practices wouldn’t have been able to see enough patients to stay open. But as the novelty has worn off and people have regained confidence in going to in-person appointments, both the government and private payers have begun making moves that will impact the technology’s long-term viability.

Medical Economics spoke with Thomas Conroy, CEO, MedSign, about how telehealth is viewed and what its future might look like.

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Topics: Digital Health, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Healthcare System, Interview / Q&A, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Public Health / COVID, Technology, Telehealth, Trends
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