AcademyHealth Members Examine Barriers to Telehealth and Opportunities to Expand Its Use
December’s issue of Health Affairs features 11 articles by AcademyHealth members on the theme of telehealth.
Access to care is a complex topic that includes the study of whether sufficient health care resources exist to meet people’s needs, as well as whether people experience physical, financial or other barriers to those services. Evidence in this area can span from whether a rural community has enough specialists, like cardiologists, to whether people in an urban community have transportation or language barriers that make seeing health care providers more difficult.