The “Telehealth Modernization Act” Overlooks The Main Obstacle to Modernization SHARE If there is a silver lining to the dark cloud COVID-19 has cast over this country these past twelve months, it is that we are discovering previously under‐used technologies that enable us to work and socialize without even leaving our homes. An example is telehealth—a technology that is actually not new. Tele‐radiology, for example, which taps the skills of the world’s experts in diagnostic imaging, has been in use since the beginning of this century. Yet telehealth has only received the attention it deserves with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic.