Telehealth's Double-Edged Sword: Bridging or Perpetuating Health Inequities?

Katherine Gergen Barnett^{1

2

3}, Rebecca Grochow Mishuris^{4

5

6}, Charles T Williams^{1

3}, Alexa Bragg³, Afi M Semenya^{1

3}, Marielle Baldwin^{1

3}, Jessica Howard³, Stephen A Wilson^{1

3}, Jayakanth Srinivasan^{2

7}

Affiliations

¹ Boston University School of Medicine, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA, 02118, USA.
² Boston University Institute of Health System Innovation and Policy, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Boston Medical Center Department of Family Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ Boston University School of Medicine, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA, 02118, USA. rebecca.grochowmishuris@bmc.org.
⁵ Boston Medical Center Health System, Boston, MA, USA. rebecca.grochowmishuris@bmc.org.
⁶ Boston Medical Center Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston, MA, USA. rebecca.grochowmishuris@bmc.org.
⁷ Boston University Questrom School of Business, Boston, MA, USA.

Katherine Gergen Barnett et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Aug.

. 2022 Aug;37(11):2845-2848.

doi: 10.1007/s11606-022-07481-w. Epub 2022 Mar 23.

¹ Boston University School of Medicine, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA, 02118, USA.
² Boston University Institute of Health System Innovation and Policy, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Boston Medical Center Department of Family Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ Boston University School of Medicine, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA, 02118, USA. rebecca.grochowmishuris@bmc.org.
⁵ Boston Medical Center Health System, Boston, MA, USA. rebecca.grochowmishuris@bmc.org.
⁶ Boston Medical Center Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston, MA, USA. rebecca.grochowmishuris@bmc.org.
⁷ Boston University Questrom School of Business, Boston, MA, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they do not have a conflict of interest.

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