Author Interviews, COVID -19 Coronavirus, JAMA, Race/Ethnic Diversity, Social Issues, Technology, University of Pennsylvania / 30.12.2020
Disparities in Telemedicine Use in the COVID-19 Era
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Srinath Adusumalli, MD, MSc, FACC
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine| Penn Medicine
Lauren A. Eberly, MD, MPH
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has uprooted conventional health care delivery for routine ambulatory care, requiring health systems to rapidly adopt telemedicine capabilities. At Penn Medicine, we wanted to ensure that as we developed a new system of telemedical care, we were reaching all of the patients we serve and access to care was maintained. As such, we undertook this study to examine utilization of care as we continued to iterate on and develop our telemedical system of care.
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