{"id":8806,"date":"2022-10-25T22:26:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T22:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncjolt.org\/?p=8806"},"modified":"2022-10-25T22:26:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T22:26:44","slug":"the-telehealth-revolution-how-it-fails-to-transform-care-for-undocumented-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/articles\/volume-24\/volume-24-issue-1\/the-telehealth-revolution-how-it-fails-to-transform-care-for-undocumented-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"THE TELEHEALTH &#8220;REVOLUTION&#8221; &amp; HOW IT FAILS TO TRANSFORM CARE FOR UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/10\/Bhasin-Final.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-mobile-width=\"500\"  data-scrollbar=\"none\" data-download=\"off\" data-tracking=\"on\" data-newwindow=\"on\" data-pagetextbox=\"off\" data-scrolltotop=\"off\" data-startzoom=\"100\" data-startfpzoom=\"100\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Bhasin-Final<br\/><\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The outbreak of COVlD-19 led to the rapid adoption and expansion of telehealth services. Upon understanding telehealth&#8217;s potential\u00a0to\u00a0reach\u00a0underserved\u00a0populations,\u00a0people\u00a0began referring to this method of health care delivery as &#8220;revolutionary.&#8221; This reputation stuck, even though it quickly became obvious that telehealth utilization was more common among White, educated, and relatively wealthier individuals. Meanwhile, advocates of telehealth equity found that the benefits of telehealth did not adequately trickle down to lower-income and rural communities, nor\u00a0to\u00a0communities\u00a0of\u00a0color.\u00a0Undocumented\u00a0immigrants\u00a0as\u00a0a\u00a0group were often ignored during considerations of these disparities.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This Article is among the first, even within interdisciplinary scholarship, to highlight undocumented immigrants and their (in)ability to access telehealth services. lt begins with a discussion of federal and state immigration policies that govern health care access for immigrants and proceeds to analyze immigrants&#8217; health care\u00a0needs\u00a0and\u00a0enhanced\u00a0vulnerability during\u00a0the\u00a0pandemic.\u00a0lt\u00a0then discusses four areas in which an immigrant&#8217;s undocumented status makes telehealth services harder to access: (1) insurance and affordability,\u00a0(2)\u00a0fears\u00a0of\u00a0privacy breaches\u00a0and\u00a0surveillance,<\/em> <em>(3)\u00a0access to technology and digital skills, and (4) limited English language proficiency. This Article concludes by recommending changes to state and federal immigration policies that may help undocumented\u00a0immigrants\u00a0realize\u00a0the\u00a0novel\u00a0and\u00a0innovative\u00a0ways\u00a0to access health care which were promised by the telehealth\u00a0revolution.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Author: Asees Bhasin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PDF<\/strong>: http:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\\\/ncjolt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/10\/Bhasin-Final.pdf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Volume 24, Issue 1<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The outbreak of COVlD-19 led to the rapid adoption and expansion of telehealth services. Upon understanding telehealth&#8217;s potential\u00a0to\u00a0reach\u00a0underserved\u00a0populations,\u00a0people\u00a0began referring to this method of health care delivery as &#8220;revolutionary.&#8221; This reputation stuck, even though it quickly became obvious that telehealth utilization was more common among White, educated, and relatively wealthier individuals. Meanwhile, advocates of telehealth equity <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/articles\/volume-24\/volume-24-issue-1\/the-telehealth-revolution-how-it-fails-to-transform-care-for-undocumented-immigrants\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[415],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8807,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806\/revisions\/8807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}