{"id":461,"date":"2015-08-12T08:35:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T12:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=461"},"modified":"2015-08-12T08:35:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T12:35:26","slug":"doctors-virtual-consults-with-patients-to-double-by-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"Doctors&#8217; Virtual Consults With Patients To Double By 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"ng-binding ng-scope\">Bruce Japsen, Forbes Contributor)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to expanding health insurance coverage, the number of virtual video consultations between primary health care providers and their patients will double in five years in the U.S., fueling the nation\u2019s telehealth boom, according to a new analysis.<\/p>\n<p>A new report from information and analytics firm IHS\u00a0says video consultations will jump overall to nearly 27 million in the U.S. market, driven by the primary care market where insurance coverage is rapidly widening. IHS \u00a0projects there will be cumulative annual growth of nearly 25% a year over the next five years to 5.4 million video consultations between primary care providers and their patients by 2020 from this year\u2019s 2 million video consultations, IHS says. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucejapsen\/2015\/08\/09\/as-telehealth-booms-doctor-video-consults-to-double-by-2020\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Digest%20Send%20Test%202015-08-09&amp;utm_term=Daily%20Digest%20Horizon\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Notice: The \u201cRead more\u2026\u201d 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; socialsecurityreport.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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0Bruce Japsen, Forbes Contributor)\u00a0 Thanks to expanding health insurance coverage, the number of virtual video consultations between primary health<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}