More businesses are offering online medical certificates and telehealth prescriptions. What are the pros and cons?
- Written by Centaine Snoswell, Research Fellow Health Economics, The University of Queensland
ShutterstockTelehealth has played an important role during the pandemic. Telephone and online consultations have enabled social distancing and kept patients and clinicians safe from transmissible infections.
Since the start of COVID in March 2020, there have been 122 million telehealth consultations funded through Medicare. About 90% of these...




