April 07, 2021
During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, patients who most frequently used telehealth for cardiovascular care tended to be younger and privately insured, to have more comorbidities, and to be from underrepresented racial groups, according to data from Los Angeles. Additionally, both diagnostic testing and medication prescribing decreased for remote visits following the start of the pandemic.
Video and telephone appointments were not a new phenomenon in 2020, but by March, they became a lifeline for many patients who were unable or hesitant to access in-person care.
“The pandemic really jump-started the shift to telemedicine, but I think a lot of people found that they really liked the convenience of those visits and I think that there s a good chance that telehealth is definitely going to be here to stay even as the pandemic wanes,” lead author Neal Yuan, MD (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA), told TCTMD. “It s a really important topic and definit
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