Assessment of Disparities in Digital Access Among Medicare Beneficiaries and Implications for Telemedicine

Eric T Roberts; Ateev Mehrotra

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.2666

Assessment of Disparities in Digital Access Among Medicare Beneficiaries and Implications for Telemedicine

JAMA Intern Med. 2020 Oct 1;180(10):1386-1389. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.2666.

Authors

Eric T Roberts¹, Ateev Mehrotra^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Policy & Management, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
² Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study uses data from the 2018 American Community Survey to assess disparities in digital access among Medicare beneficiaries by demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Female
Health Services Accessibility / statistics & numerical data*
Healthcare Disparities / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Male
Medicare / statistics & numerical data*
Poverty / statistics & numerical data
Residence Characteristics
Socioeconomic Factors
Telemedicine / statistics & numerical data*
United States
Vulnerable Populations / statistics & numerical data

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding