Physician requirements for adoption of telehealth following the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

It took the advent of SARS-CoV-2, a "black swan event", to widely introduce telehealth, remote care, and virtual house calls. Prior to the epidemic (2019), the American Medical Association (AMA) conducted a routine study to compare physicians' adoption of emerging technologies to a similar survey in 2016. Most notable was a doubling in the adoption of telehealth/virtual technology to 28% and increases in the use of remote monitoring and management for improved care (13-22%).