Telehealth services exploded during the COVID pandemic, but when and where was it first put into practice?
In 1967, Dr. Kenneth Bird, an internist and pulmonologist at Mass General, founded the first telemedicine program in the United States. Using a closed-circuit television system connecting Mass General with Boston's Logan Airport, Dr. Bird could virtually examine ill travelers arriving at Boston's Logan Airport. Source: Mass General Center for Telehealth
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