{
  "id": 16906101,
  "title": "Japan's telemedicine use increased from 2020 to 2024 as age gap widened",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/japans-telemedicine-use-increased-from-2020-to-2024-as-age-gap-widened",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-28T13:40:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-japan-telemedicine-age-gap-widened.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Telemedicine came into wide use during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. However, access to and use of telemedicine may vary according to factors such as age, educational attainment, income, employment status and place of residence, though it has long been unclear whether these disparities would narrow as the use of telemedicine spread.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}