{"id":16571,"date":"2020-08-03T11:58:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T15:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16571"},"modified":"2020-08-03T11:58:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T15:58:30","slug":"jama-studies-show-25-percent-of-medicare-beneficiaries-cant-access-telehealth-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16571","title":{"rendered":"JAMA studies show 25 percent of Medicare beneficiaries can&#8217;t access telehealth visits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent pair of studies published in JAMA Internal Medicine, one study found more than percent of Medicare beneficiaries lacked access to a computer with high-speed internet access at home and almost percent lacked a smartphone with a wireless data plan.\u00a0 The second study found, an estimated 13 million seniors in the United States were not prepared for video visits at all, mostly due to inexperience with technology. Despite the surge in telemedicine, many experts are concerned that America\u2019s seniors may not be getting the full benefits of telemedicine. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcaredive.com\/news\/quarter-of-medicare-members-cant-access-telehealth-visits-jama-studies-sh\/582724\/\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8434\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data-130x90.jpg 130w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/research-data.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent pair of studies published in JAMA Internal Medicine, one study found more than percent of Medicare beneficiaries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-emerging-health-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16572,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16571\/revisions\/16572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}