Vertical takeoff and successful orbit for teleconsultation. After an explosion at the end of March due to coronavirus and containment, the number of teleconsultations stabilized in April around one million per week, or a quarter of medical consultations, according to figures released Thursday by Health Insurance. Reimbursed by the Social Security since September 2018, this practice struggled to develop, until the Covid-19 made it essential.
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Carried out by general practitioners
The number of weekly acts has thus dropped from 10,000 per week to 90,000 in the first week of confinement, 523,000 at the end of March and 999,000 at the beginning of April, before peaking at 1,075,000 and then falling to 916,000 last week, according to Health Insurance. .
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The week of April 6 - when the million mark was crossed - 28% of medical consultations were carried out remotely. In more than 80% of cases, these teleconsultations were carried out by general practitioners - and less than once in five by specialists. Almost one in two liberal physicians (47%) used it in mid-April, compared to just 2% in early March.