mHealth Intelligence April 22, 2024
Higher telehealth use was linked to more outpatient visits, fewer ED visits, and better medication adherence, but also more healthcare spending, new research shows.
Though telehealth utilization resulted in improvements in some healthcare utilization and quality measures, it was also linked to a 1.6 percent increase in healthcare spending, according to new research published in Health Affairs.
Amid the ongoing debate about the future of telehealth policy and reimbursement, researchers from Harvard University and RAND Corp. sought to assess telehealth’s effects on healthcare utilization, quality, and spending. Telehealth usage has dropped from the pandemic’s peak in 2020 but remains higher than pre-pandemic levels. Data from Epic Research shows that telehealth use encompassed less than 1 percent of all visits in...
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