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Podcast: A Health Podyssey
Episode: Examining the telehealth digital divide for patients with limited English proficiency
Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted an increase in telehealth utilization. Since that growth, researchers have made calls to ensure that telehealth's subsequent growth does not exacerbate disparities in care. Evidence of the “digital divide,” or differences in the technology or skills needed to access telehealth care, is widely documented. Race, age, geography, health coverage, and more can all impact how and if one adopts and uses telehealth services. English language proficiency is one factor closely connected to telemedicine use, even before the COVID-19 pandemic began. Jorge Rodriguez, an instructor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hosp...