Grit Daily June 26, 2021
The booming business of telemedicine is the future of healthcare. In 2019, more than 75% of U.S. hospitals used video services to connect with their patients. The popularity of telemedicine grew at a rapid rate in the late 2010s, but the emergence of COVID-19 spurred many to try telehealth for the first time. In just the first quarter of 2020 alone, there were over 1,500,000 telehealth visits. 61% of Americans have now had at least one telehealth appointment, which is a 3x increase since March of 2020.
Telehealth is nearly 100 years old but is only now becoming mainstream. A brief timeline of telehealth starts in the 1920s when radio was used to give medical advice to ship clinicians. By...
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