Part 2 of a two-part series on COVID-19 and telehealth. Part 1, published yesterday, covered the upsides to telemedicine._____________________________________When the biggest barriers to telehealth—namely, government and payer resistance and HIPAA patient privacy restrictions—came crumbling down amid the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth was able to rapidly scale up to at least partially fill the gap.A late April survey by the Sevocity division of Conceptual MindWorks found that while overall patient volumes are low, 85% of medical practices said they were conducting telehealth visits, versus only 6% before the pandemic.