Telehealth utilization in U.S. medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years and older during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has become a serious public health concern for older adults and amplified the value of deploying telehealth solutions. The purpose of this study was to investigate telehealth offered by providers among U.S. Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years and older during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

This cross-sectional study analyzed Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years and older using data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, Winter 2021 COVID-19 Supplement ([Formula: see text]). We identified variables that were associated with telehealth offered by primary care physicians and beneficiaries' access to the Internet through a multivariate classification analysis utilizing Random Forest machine learning techniques.

Findings

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SUBMITTER: Lu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9942377 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature