Telemedicine companies will tell you the pandemic has ushered in a new era of connected health across America. But the Biden administration wants a closer look at whether technology is the

thing making the strongest connection. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on Thursday launched a roundtable series to examine which pandemic-driven innovations are worth

keeping and which may only reinforce the divide between the haves and have-nots. “Our health care system in many ways turned on a dime to embrace digital health technologies and

telemedicine,” said Carrie Wolinetz, the office’s deputy director of health and life sciences. “We also learned a lot about community-based health care in a very people-centered way.” STAT+