Telehealth vendors are scrambling to hire doctors and get them onboarded as soon as possible to meet skyrocketing patient demand as the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread across the U.S.
"The big challenge we have right now is there's a need to get as many providers on our platform as quickly as possible so we're able to meet that surging demand," Ross Friedberg, chief legal and business affairs officer at Doctor on Demand, told Healthcare Dive.
San Francisco-based Doctor on Demand is aggressively recruiting, Friedberg said, and "rapidly increasing" its number of providers daily, though the company declined to share more specific figures.
Mobile app-based vendor 98point6, which licenses its physicians in all 50 states, is bringing on short-term physicians to help with the recent dramatic increase in patient volume. Over the next month, the startup expects to triple the number of doctors working at 98point6.
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