NYC Black and Latino Patients Less Likely Than White Patients to use Telehealth During Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected people of color in the United States, with researchers flagging the serious ramifications that could arise from using potentially biased artificial intelligence models to address the coronavirus.

At the same time, patients have turned to telehealth as a way to avoid in-person transmission and address medical needs.

A new study from the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association published this week showed that in New York City during the first few months of the pandemic, Black and Latino's patients had lower odds of using telehealth versus other modalities.

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