From left: Lauren Brueggen, Ben Middleton and Larry Van Horn
Photos: Daniel Meigs
Telehealth is booming in a period of unregulated innovation, and industry leaders in Nashville are looking to reform pre-pandemic regulatory and reimbursement norms to align with progress they’ve made implementing the technology to support growing demand and holistic, preventative medicine.
In April 2020, telehealth utilization shot up 78 times higher than in February of the same year, now stabilizing to approximately 38 times higher than before the pandemic, according to data from health care consulting giant McKinsey & Company. Investments in virtual care have skyrocketed as well, according to Rock Health’s H1 2021 digital health funding report, from $7.7 billion in 2019 to $14.7 billion in 2021, with total revenues from the top 60 virtual heath players nearly doubling in the process.
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Photo: Daniel Meigs
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