Telehealth Experts Discuss Access In Health Care Deserts, Overcoming Provider Resistance, Liability Concerns

Virtual care leaders at Providence and Sanford Health shared successes and challenges in implementing remote monitoring and telehealth programs during a panel discussion at the recent Reuters Digital Health conference in San Diego.

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Health care leaders are optimistic that remote monitoring and telehealth are here to stay despite a recent flurry of bad news, including the closures of Optum’s virtual care business and Walmart Health Virtual Care as well as Teladoc Health’s $82m first-quarter revenue loss.

“I’m really bullish on remote patient monitoring,” Eve Cunningham, chief of virtual care and digital health at Providence, told attendees...

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