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Do patient visit patterns offer any insight into the future of telehealth?
Author(s)Todd Shryock, Logan Lutton
Many patients who used telehealth have since returned to in-office visits
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Many patients who used telehealth have since returned to in-office visits, and doctors that reported a lot of telehealth usage early on now say it’s declined. What does this say about the long-term future for telehealth in medicine?
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