TY  - GEN
AU  - Busso, Matías
AU  - González, María P.
AU  - Scartascini, Carlos
TI  - Research Insights: Did Demand for Telemedicine Grow During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
PY  - 2022
Y1  - 2022/06/24
DO  - 10.18235/0004319
AB  - We exploit mobility restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic to show the existence of a larger potential demand for telemedicine services in a middle-income developing country. We find an increase in the number of calls by 230 percent during the pandemic. The effects were mostly driven by older individuals with pre-existing conditions who used the service for internal medicine consultations. After the mobility restrictions were lifted, the demand for telemedicine services remained high.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18235/0004319
ER  -