JAMA Health Forum Conversations: The Future of Telehealth in the US

Before 2020, telehealth was in the margins of US medicine. Now, in 2026, roughly 1 in 20 health care visits in the US are provided via telehealth with adoption varying by medical specialty. Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, from the Brown University School of Public Health joins JAMA Health Forum Editor in Chief Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, to discuss telehealth and the future of digital health care in the US.