With the pandemic, there came a digital health explosion, with companies working swiftly to bring new technologies to light that would pave the way forward in telehealth and other critical areas. We saw an incredible interest in this space then, but what is the state of digital health now? In this post, we look at data from public and private financing markets in the digital health space in 2022, and look forward to what […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world in fundamental ways. One of the biggest changes is the increased access to, and reliance upon, telemedicine. The scope of that increase is astounding. In 2020, the number of Medicare visits conducted through telehealth increased 63-fold. From 2016 to 2022, the percentage of physicians using virtual visits grew from 14% to 80%. “What we saw during COVID was a real shift from the in-person visit to the phone visit […]
The COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) is set to expire on May 11, 2023, and there seems to be a scramble to extend some of the pandemic-related flexibilities involving telehealth. On March 1, 2023, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) released two notices of proposed rulemaking to allow some of those flexibilities to continue, but are nevertheless more restrictive than what has been permitted since the PHE went into effect. One proposed rule will no longer permit telehealth […]