HIT Consultant September 8, 2020
What You Should Know:
– US telemedicine app downloads see dramatic increases during the COVID-19 pandemic, with some seeing an 8,270% rise YoY.
Downloads of U.S. Telemedicine apps from leading telehealth companies have reported dramatic increases in demand for their services in the US since the COVID-19 pandemic began, according to GlobalData, a leading data, and analytics company. Some of the biggest benefiters have been the Synzi Virtual Care app for physicians, which saw a whole 1,600% increase in downloads YoY, and MediSprout’s V2MD patient companion app, which increased from just under 50 in 2019 to around 4,100 in Q2 2020 – an 8,270% increase.
Data from GlobalData’s latest research report, ‘Use of Telemedicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the...