Medical Economics August 28, 2025
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Health care based on brick-and-mortar locations is outdated.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...







