Highly Privileged Cancer Patients Get Access to Telehealth Sooner

mHealth Intelligence: Highly Privileged Cancer Patients Get Access to Telehealth Sooner

A study published in JAMA Oncology found that though telehealth use among cancer patients skyrocketed early in the COVID-19 pandemic, uptake was not uniform across socioeconomic groups. Most patients in the highest socioeconomic status index quartile (66.9 percent) had a virtual visit within 30 days of cancer diagnosis, compared with about 48 percent of patients in the lower index quartiles.