Opinion | People Have Stopped Going to the Doctor. Most Seem Just Fine. (Published 2020)
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Opinion | People Have Stopped Going to the Doctor. Most Seem Just Fine. (Published 2020)
The rapid and deadly spread of COVID through nursing homes will increase demand for home-based care as patients and families avoid shared spaces and stricter regulations drive up costs. Pre-COVID, the primary telehealth use case was for more convenient urgent care. Now that so many patients are comfortable with telehealth, there is the potential to... See more
Lily Bernicker • Healthcare: What Happens Next
19/ A few other thoughts on hospitals in Covid era:
Re: telemedicine – we learned that not only can many (perhaps most) outpt visits go virtual, but also many hospital visits. This helped us lower # of visits (w/ lower PPE use & infection risk) & has big future implications.
Bob Wachtertwitter.comWhile it remains to be seen what the telemedicine regulatory landscape will look like post-pandemic, telemedicine visits as a fraction of total doctor visits spiked in Q2 2020, and remain at an elevated level from the start of the year.