Pandemic Illuminates Benefits of Telemedicine for Employers, Workers

The use of telemedicine is on the rise among employers who worried that injured workers would have trouble receiving the care they needed during the COVID-19 pandemic, a panel of experts agreed. The pandemic created something of a heyday for telemedicine, according to participants in a virtual session of the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions’ 107th Annual Convention, which concluded Thursday. The technology that connects patients with health care professionals was well-suited, they said, for helping workers who were hampered in getting face-to-...