COVID-19 transforms health care through telemedicine: Evidence from the field
By D. Mann, Ji Chen, R. Chunara, P. Testa, Oded Nov. J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2020
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Abstract This study provides data on the feasibility and impact of video-enabled telemedicine use among patients and providers and its impact on urgent and nonurgent healthcare delivery from one large health system (NYU Langone Health) at the epicenter of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in the United States. Between March 2nd and April 14th 2020, telemedicine visits increased from 102.4 daily to 801.6 daily. (683% increase) in urgent care after the system-wide expansion of virtual urgent care staff in response to COVID-19. Of all virtual visits post expansion, 56.2% and 17.6% urgent and nonurgent visits, respectively, were COVID-19–related. Telemedicine usage was highest by patients 20 to 44 years of age, particularly for urgent care. The COVID-19 pandemic has driven rapid expansion of telemedicine use for urgent care and nonurgent care visits beyond baseline periods. This reflects an important change in telemedicine that other institutions facing the COVID-19 pandemic should anticipate.
Subfields: General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
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- Digital technologies, innovation, and skills: emerging trajectories and challenges (2021, positive): “The use of digitalization that previously had a limited impact, such as telemedicine, was massively increased in a matter of weeks (e.g., Mann et al., 2020).”
- Exploring the adoption of telemedicine and virtual software for care of outpatients during and after COVID-19 pandemic (2020, background): “Likewise, the regulatory changes raised to support easily accessible adoption of telemedicine may be equally hard to reverse [34].”