Physician Telehealth Use Spiked From 25% In 2018 To 80% In 2020, Data Show

mHealth Intelligence (9/15, Wicklund) reports “telehealth use by physicians jumped from 25 percent in 2018 to almost 80 percent in 2020, while almost 85 percent of psychiatrists connected with the patients via video visit or telephone during the height of the pandemic, according to” an American Medical Association survey(PDF). The data show “psychiatrists were most likely to adopt telehealth,” pediatricians “scored above 76 percent,” and dermatologists “topped the list of those using video visits, at 87.3 percent, followed by urologists at 87.2 percent.”

Related Links:

— “AMA Survey Charts Explosive Growth of Telehealth Services in 2020 “Eric Wicklund, mHealth Intelligence, September 15, 2021

Posted in In The News.