Posted by Deborah Overman | Apr 21, 2021 | Telemedicine | |
In late March 2020, ATI Physical Therapy (ATI) launched its telehealth platform CONNECT. As an essential health care provider during the pandemic, the new virtual platform gave patients a viable option to safely continue with their treatments.
CONNECT was launched under the presumption that virtual PT sessions would be most effective for non-operative patients; patients with lower pain and disability levels; and patients further along in their recovery journey. However, after treating patients through more than 43,000 virtual visits in the year since CONNECT’s launch, ATI has learned telehealth benefits a significantly larger population of patients with a broader range of conditions and pain levels than it first anticipated.
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BOLINGBROOK, Ill., April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ In late March 2020, ATI Physical Therapy (ATI), one of the nation s largest providers of physical therapy (PT) services, launched its telehealth platform CONNECT™. As an essential health care provider during the pandemic, the new virtual platform gave patients a viable option to safely continue with their treatments. Taking into account all healthcare providers, telehealth adoption increased 154% during the last week of March 2020 compared to the same period in 2019.
1 Telehealth continues to prove itself beneficial beyond its originally intended uses and is expected to continue as a prominent means of care beyond the pandemic for the industry.