Health systems and telemedicine adoption for diabetes and hypertension care.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated telemedicine use nationally, but differences across health systems are understudied. We examine telemedicine use for adults with diabetes and/or hypertension across 10 health systems and analyze practice and patient characteristics associated with greater use.

Study design

Encounter-level data from the AMGA Optum Data Warehouse for March 13, 2020, to December 31, 2020, were analyzed, which included 3,016,761 clinical encounters from 764,521 adults with diabetes and/or hypertension attributed to 1 of 1207 practice sites with at least 50 system-attributed patients.

Methods

Linear spline regression estimated whether practice size and ownership were associated with telemedicine during the adoption (weeks 0-4), de-adoption (week

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez HP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9897448 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature