Telehealth Is Just Healthcare Now – One Post-COVID Certainty, Three Reports

"As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.
Telemedicine visits were evident in March 2020, just days after the World Health Organization uttered the “P-word:” pandemic.
Three recent reports (among many others!) bolster the business and clinical cases for telehealth in America in terms of:
A “quarter-trillion-dollar post-COVID-19 reality,” coined by McKinsey & Company;
The return of patients to healthcare sites, from Kaufman Hall; and,
The future of virtual health, via Deloitte Center for health Solutions and the ATA...." Lire la suite