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Telehealth is essentially providing medical services remotely. It is important in this context as medical devices are often used to enable remote communication. What is interesting to note is that access to telehealth is dependent, in part, on income. The pandemic has proven the “generalizability of telehealth,” the CMIO of NYU Langone Health stated, where virtual visits have skyrocketed since COVID-19 lockdown measures have been in place. Meanwhile, HHS recently awarded $20 million to increase telehealth access.²⁶ This, along with the pandemic, is only going to accelerate the demand for telehealth.