mHealth Intelligence December 1, 2023
Though the overall share of telehealth visits has dropped, it accounts for 37 percent of mental health and 11 percent of infectious disease visits, new data shows.
While telehealth use has dropped nearly 25 percentage points from peak usage in 2020, certain specialties, like mental health, infectious disease, and obstetrics, still have higher-than-average telehealth use, according to new data.
The data from Epic Research aims to provide insights into telehealth use trends across specialties in 2023 compared to before and during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers analyzed 475 million telehealth and in-person visits between the second quarter (Q2) of 2019 and the third quarter (Q3) of 2023. The data was gathered from Cosmos, a collaboration of 222 health...