He’s seeing this develop as co-CEO of Amwell, a Boston-based company that provides telemedicine software and technology for health systems and insurers. The company works with more than 55 health plans and health systems representing over 2,000 hospitals. Q: What is some care patients seek in-person now that you expect will become largely virtual in the future? The revolution that’s going on right now is where people are beginning to utilize these technologies to interact with their regular caretakers. If the patient is not doing well, (the technology) will have the smarts to escalate that patient right back in front of (a nurse or doctor).

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Persons: Roy Schoenberg, He’s, Schoenberg, We’re, Ido, We’ve Organizations: Associated Press, Associated Press Health, Science Department, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science, Educational Media Group, AP Locations: Boston, telemedicine