If historians find any silver lining in the tragic COVID-19 pandemic, it will be that it accelerated America's embrace of health care modernization. But the future of telehealth is threatened and potentially hobbled by lawsuit abuse from “patent trolls” (euphemistically known as Non-Practicing Entities, or NPEs). Patent trolls are scam artists that abuse the patent system for their own personal gain – posing a threat to the high-tech innovation that supports modern telehealth.
