Pre­scrip­tion re­fills help fu­el tele­health's stay­ing pow­er as pan­dem­ic wanes

Tele­health may have surged dur­ing the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic, but it looks like it’s now here to stay. New re­search from point-of-care com­pa­ny Phree­sia finds that 84% of the peo­ple cur­rent­ly us­ing tele­health plan to con­tin­ue us­ing it over the next year.

The lat­est study fol­lows up on a sur­vey Phree­sia did last year to look at changes in tele­health trends caused by the uptick in vir­tu­al care dur­ing the pan­dem­ic. Though more physi­cians and con­sumers have gone back to in-per­son vis­its, both sur­veys showed sim­i­lar over­all re­sults, said Jai Seth, se­nior re­search man­ag­er at Phree­sia.

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