Virtual " urgent care " may lead to higher rates of downstream follow-up care

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Even before the pandemic made telehealth a hot topic, people with minor urgent health needs had started to turn to companies that offer on-demand video chats with physicians that they don't normally see.Insurers and employers even started buying access to this direct-to-consumer form of virtual care, hoping it might reduce in-person care, including emergency department visits. But a new study casts some doubt on whether that will actually happen.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news