The American Academy of Family Physicians published the survey in American Family Physicians.
Here are five takeaways:
1. Of the respondents, 78 percent reported they believed telehealth improved access to care.
2. Sixty-eight percent of respondents reported believing telehealth enhanced the continuity of care.
3. Respondents cited several barriers to telehealth adoption including training (54 percent), lack of reimbursement (53 percent), equipment cost (45 percent) and potential liability (41 percent).
4. In a 2015 Healthline survey, of the 3,789 consumer respondents, only 9 percent reported using telehealth services.
5. “Telehealth use is in the early stages of adoption,” the paper’s authors wrote. “Many of the barriers to wider adoption may be addressed by policy changes. Strategies to address the top two barriers identified by this survey include health care stakeholders offering new opportunities for training in the use of telehealth services and payers increasing awareness of their current reimbursement for telehealth services, as well as developing new ways to reimburse the services.”
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