How Telehealth Has Radically Changed the Way We Go to the Doctor
Left: Credit: Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong "The quote I like to cite is that we advanced 10 years in telehealth progress in the course of 10 weeks, and it's pretty accurate," Colin Banas, MD, chief medical officer of health care software company DrFirst, which helps connect patients to health care providers, tells Health. "I think a lot of this would have taken a lot longer had it not been for the crisis." Telemedicine is clearly a hit with patients. In April, 44% of Medicare primary care visits were done via telehealth, compared w...