The nation’s largest independent telemedicine provider, Teladoc, experienced a 50% increase in demand for its services through March 20, 2020. As a result, patients are reporting lengthy wait times even as Teladoc adds more physicians. This is a predictable outcome....
“Unfortunately, it’s taken some pretty extraordinary circumstances, but I think this will be a watershed moment for the industry,” Zipnosis CEO Jon Pearce told CNN Business. “Certainly in the past few weeks with Covid, I think people’s...
… With most of the U.S. under some kind of directive to stay home, these are boom times for digital doctors. Besides worried patients whose symptoms sound like Covid-19, there are plenty of asthmatics, diabetics and discoverers of alarming rashes who still need...
Demand for Telehealth Services Is Booming Nonetheless, patients who are fearful of venturing out of their homes during the quarantine for routine doctor visits are turning to telehealth in droves. Worth spoke with Jon Pearce, CEO of Minneapolis-based Zipnosis, a...
Telemedicine companies say they’re used to meeting strict data security requirements, and deregulation will make it easier for them to reach patients. “I think it’s a balance. For decades the telemedicine industry has been overregulated,” Jon Pearce, CEO of...
Even before the government order, custom-designed apps for online medical consultations were already seeing a spike in usage from people wary of visiting a doctor in person, Jon Pearce, CEO of the telemedicine firm Zipnosis, told Tonya. “We’ve seen a 100-fold increase...
