The Benefits of and Barriers to Using Telehealth to Facilitate More Equitable Healthcare

In a year, the Covid-19 pandemic transformed telehealth from an underutilized niche into a mainstay of care provision. Proponents hold up digital platforms as a means to provide convenient, accessible, and cost-effective healthcare. The benefits telemedicine offers should not be ignored. But amid a too-rapid expansion, providers may risk inadvertently exacerbating access disparities.  The idea [...]

By |2021-03-19T17:42:55+00:00March 19th, 2021|Uncategorized|

Assessing the Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Telepsychiatry Availability

Before COVID-19, the question of whether digital consultations would ever supplant in-person sessions as the industry norm would have been difficult to imagine. However, when faced with the choice of either shuttering their doors against the virus or migrating onto digital platforms, mental health professionals have overwhelmingly selected the latter. In June, the American Psychological [...]

By |2020-12-04T15:58:28+00:00November 20th, 2020|Blog|