The recipient of an MD from the Medical University of South Carolina, Naval Parikh is an internal medicine physician who serves as clinical site coordinator at NAPA Research in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Supplementing nearly a decade of experience in internal medicine, Dr. Naval Parikh holds membership with the American College of Physicians (ACP).
According to a recent ACP survey, more than half of all internal medicine physicians have used or work in a practice that has employed telehealth technology. As part of its survey, the ACP asked 233 of its members to detail their respective dealings with telehealth services, including video visits, remote patient monitoring, and e-consults. Members were surveyed between October 2018 and January 2019.
Telehealth technology has the benefit of improving physician access for patients, especially among those who live in rural regions. Remote patient or chronic disease monitoring, for instance, is used once per week by half of the respondents. However, despite the expanding usage of telehealth services, only 19 percent of internists surveyed claimed to use video visits at least once a week. More than one-quarter of respondents also claimed they have no plans to implement telehealth technologies in their respective practices.
