Telehealth use has rapidly increased in primary care since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Chronic care management programs within health systems increased their use of telehealth to provide timely care and prevent exposure to COVID-19. With the expansion of telehealth use and its potential to overcome barriers to care access, health systems and patients must have real-world evidence of the benefits of telehealth use on health outcomes and disparity reduction to optimize telehealth use in multiple chronic conditions management.
Authors including HIP Investigators Drs. Maureen Smith and Jessica Cao, aimed to examine the association of telehealth use with chronic care management and disparity reduction in care outcomes for disadvantaged patients with chronic conditions among the aging population.
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