The Road To Telehealth Adoption: One Step Forward & One Step Back

Telehealth seems to be a mixed bag from an adoption perspective.  Great potential for savings but limited adoption. The "great potential" piece has come in a steady stream of research articles pointing out the costs savings of telehealth adoption – see From Telehealth ‘Pilot To Prediction’, 93% Of Telehealth Video Calls Replaced Doctor Visits, and Remote Patient Monitoring Linked To 44% Drop In Hospital Admissions & 72% Drop In Hospital Charges).

But, the “potential” of telehealth to reduce health care costs is in its creative destruction – many of our “current” assumptions about service delivery and financing will need to be replaced . . .