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 [...]