Embrace Digital Transformation: Lowering Barriers with Telemedicine
“Across industries, technology has made it possible – a requirement, really – to reach customers where they are. This is especially true in healthcare, where geography has always created barriers to care, but it is even more critical in the COVID environment.”
“From its earliest days, LifeStance was built on a digital foundation. Since our founding, we’ve viewed telemedicine as a key component to improving patient access, but COVID dramatically accelerated our timeline. What we had planned to roll-out over the course of about a year, got condensed into a 10-day timeframe. In March 2020, our team of went from an average of 300 telepsych visits per week to more than 40,000 per week – and that number continues to grow. I credit the continued growth of our telemedicine offering to our strong team, to the national network of committed clinicians we have built, and to our collective commitment to delivering high quality care and changing the conversation about mental health care.”