Healthcare IT Today June 30, 2020
The evolution and adoption of telehealth these past few months has been fascinating to watch. It illustrated many of the built in biases many healthcare organizations had towards in person visits. It also highlighted times when an in person visit is far superior to an online visit. While we’re starting to see a roll back to more in person visits with new social distancing, COVID-19 has certainly thrown the doors open to telehealth in a way that could have never been imagined possible 6 months ago.
Even before COVID-19, there were a number of direct to consumer telehealth companies who were offering telehealth options for a special set of visits. No doubt that’s exploded in the current environment and in...