Medical Economics August 28, 2025
Alex Marsh, MD, Todd Shryock

Key Takeaways

  • Despite telehealth advancements, healthcare investment remains focused on brick-and-mortar facilities, hindering industry evolution.
  • Telehealth now offers tools to reduce costs, expand access, and alleviate physician burnout, but requires industry-wide adoption.
  • Flexible care models through telehealth can prevent costly emergency visits by enabling early diagnosis and comprehensive care.
  • Recent initiatives show high patient satisfaction and significant undiagnosed condition detection, highlighting telehealth’s potential.

Health care based on brick-and-mortar locations is outdated. Physicians need to embrace more care via telehealth

In the year 2025, we’re still stuck in the past. For all our talk of a “telehealth revolution” and “click-and-brick”, a surprising amount of health care investment continues to fund old models of brick-and-mortar facilities. This doesn’t have to...

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