mHealth Intelligence December 31, 2020
Factors like age, language preferences, and median household income lead to disparities in telemedicine rates, drawing concern for health equity.
Characteristics such as age, race, language preference, sex, and household income lead to lower rates of telemedicine visits during the early phase of COVID-19, based on a new study that draws health equity concerns.
COVID-19 has required healthcare providers to rapidly evolve their telemedicine capabilities to fit the needs of patients. At the onset of the pandemic, outpatient care clinicians moved from conventional care to near-exclusive use of telemedicine.
Researchers studied 148,402 patients scheduled for telemedicine visits, including primary care and medical specialty outpatient care, at a large academic health system during the early phase of COVID-19.
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