How Healthcare Organizations Should Look at Rising Risks of Virtual Care

The growth in popularity of virtual health services was one of the few bright spots of the coronavirus pandemic. Now that the worst hopefully is behind us, the medical community needs to figure out how to keep it working as we move forward. 

Virtual health has been a part of healthcare since its first use in the late 1960s when it truly was delivered via “tele”-phone. It was limited by interstate licensing requirements, waived by regulators during the pandemic, and the disparity between in-office and virtual consults. 

Today, virtual health services are almost universally offered by healthcare organizations of all sizes and types. Compare that to the 15% of medical professionals whose practices offered these services pre-pandemic. Understandably, when only 1% to 20% of patients opted for them. Today, though, 75% of practitioners expect it to account for at least of 40% their future business