News Report | June 1, 2020
14% Of Physicians Used Telemedicine Video Visits Weekly Pre-COVID-19
About 14% of internal medicine physician members of the American College of Physicians (ACP) used telemedicine technologies every week to conduct video visits with consumers, according to a survey in January 2020. Video visits were more common in rural areas, and were used by 40% of rural physicians compared to 31% of those in non-rural areas.
About one-quarter of ACP members used telemedicine weekly to conduct physician-to-physician e-consultations (24%) and asynchronous evaluation (25%) of data submitted through a consumer portal or other secure system. About 30% of physicians used remote monitoring (29%) and remote care . . .