4sight Health September 28, 2022
David Burda

Yes, it’s another sports analogy to describe a market phenomenon in healthcare.

In sports, when we say, “defense travels well,” we mean defense plays as well on the road as it does at home. Unlike offense, which plays better at home than it does on the road.

A new study in JAMA Health Forum suggests that telemedicine also travels well. Telemedicine plays as well on the road as it does at home when it comes to getting patients the care that they need.

Researchers from Harvard, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Tufts, Penn and Duke wanted to know how many patients had a telemedicine visit with an out-of-state provider during the pandemic but after COVID-19 vaccines came out and patients...

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