Telehealth Tuesday Articles

Telehealth Tuesday is a weekly publication that provides insights, strategies, and practical advice on telehealth and digital health advancements. We help healthcare professionals, organizations, and leaders navigate the rapidly evolving telehealth landscape and optimize their digital health initiatives through:
- Practical Strategies: Actionable advice for designing and scaling telehealth programs.
- Inspiration and Vision: Insights into the future of digital health and innovative care delivery models.
- Problem-Solving Tips: Solutions to common telehealth challenges, from workflow issues to vendor selection.
- Industry Trends: Up-to-date knowledge on emerging technologies and telehealth regulations.
Telehealth Tuesday's Focus Areas
- Telehealth Optimization: Improving efficiency and effectiveness in telehealth programs.
- Remote Physiological Monitoring (RPM): Addressing challenges and strategies for successful implementation.
- Digital Health Innovations: Exploring cutting-edge technologies and trends in healthcare delivery.
- Operational Strategies: Offering guidance on governance, workflow design, and ROI analysis.
- Insights on Healthcare Transformation: Visionary ideas on the future of healthcare delivery, including AI, hospital-at-home models, and rural healthcare access.
Telehealth Tuesday's Target Audience
- Healthcare Leaders and Administrators: Decision-makers responsible for telehealth and digital health strategies.
- Clinicians and Providers: Professionals seeking to improve patient care using telehealth tools.
- Healthcare IT Professionals: Those managing the technical aspects of telehealth implementation.
- Policymakers and Consultants: Individuals shaping the broader healthcare ecosystem.
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9 Proven Telehealth Solutions Improving Chronic Disease Management
Chronic disease is the leading cause of death, disability, and healthcare spending in the U.S. — and it disproportionately impacts rural communities. Yet rural patients with diabetes, hypertension, COPD, and [...]
16 Proven Telehealth Solutions Improving Access to Rural Primary Care
Primary care is the foundation of a high-functioning healthcare system, but in rural America, it is also one of the most fragile. Many communities lack enough clinicians so patients [...]
11 Proven Telehealth Solutions Improving Access to Emergency Care
This is the second article in a multi-part series spotlighting proven telehealth-enabled solutions that address the goals outlined in CMS's Rural Health Transformation Program. Each installment will focus on [...]
13 Proven Telehealth Solutions Improving Access to Hospital Care
This is the first article in a multi-part series spotlighting proven telehealth-enabled solutions that address the goals outlined in CMS's Rural Health Transformation Program. Each installment will focus on [...]
3 Telehealth DOs and DON’Ts for Healthcare CEOs
Based on the Kano model, the reality of innovation is that features that once were a “delighter” (remember the first power windows in cars?) over time in the eyes [...]
5 Ways to Overcome Clinician Barriers to Telehealth Adoption
In a previous article, we examined how patient-side challenges like technology access, digital literacy, and care engagement continue to limit the potential of virtual care. But even when patients [...]
The Seven Pillars of Telehealth Value
Why after 30 years Telehealth is still Healthcare's Most Underutilized Strategic Asset Depending on who you ask, Telehealth (the “delivery of care at a distance”) goes back to the [...]
12 Telehealth-Powered Solutions for Overcoming 3 Common Healthcare Barriers for Patients
Telehealth has proven its value across a wide spectrum of care, but persistent barriers are keeping patients from taking full advantage of all that telehealth has to offer. Despite increasing [...]
Telehealth’s Role in Tailoring Prenatal Care
For almost a hundred years, prenatal care in the U.S. has followed a predictable rhythm: 12 to 14 in-person visits, spaced like clockwork, oftentimes regardless of a patient’s risk, resources, [...]
Overcoming 7 Common Barriers to Telehealth Adoption
Telehealth has revolutionized access to care, but adoption remains uneven across populations and health settings. Despite years of progress and post-pandemic normalization, many patients and providers still face significant obstacles. [...]
A Systems Approach to Solving
Rural America’s Healthcare Crisis
How telehealth can transform rural communities when deployed thoughtfully, comprehensively, and with deep respect for the people we serve. Rural healthcare isn't broken, it's systematically underserved — and now, in [...]
Standardizing Telehealth Training
Start with strategy. Ground it in policy. Make workflows real. Then train. I was recently asked a thoughtful question based on a the collective insights of a group from about [...]
Scaling Rural Telebehavioral Health: Five Interventions That Actually Work
Rural communities face some of the steepest barriers to behavioral health care in the country — long travel distances, limited connectivity, low digital literacy, a pronounced clinical provider shortage, and [...]
How One FQHC Used Proof-of-Concepts
To Achieve a Smarter Telehealth Rollout
When most organizations think about launching or relaunching a telehealth program (or any type of digital health innovation), the default focus is on logistics — buying equipment & licenses, [...]
Are You Still Using Telehealth Pilots?
Or have you already hired Proof-of-Concepts? As a German engineer it seems that I’ve been pre-wired to be relentlessly driven to optimize efficiency and effectiveness in everything I do. [...]
A Blueprint for Launching a Telehealth Clinic: Part 2 — Launch, Run, and Optimize
From First Patient to Sustainable Practice In last week’s article, we introduced a framework to help clinicians launch a virtual clinic. That blueprint included four phases: BEFORE – Clarifying [...]
Launching a Telehealth Clinic:
A Blueprint For Getting Started
As I explored in last week’s article, clinicians of all specialties and ages are exploring the viability and process of launching a virtual clinic to offer their clinical expertise [...]
So, Doctor, You Want to Launch a Telehealth Clinic?
9 questions to ask before turning your clinical expertise into a virtual practice A few years ago, I wrote an article titled “So, Doctor, You Want to Launch a [...]
Growing Your Innovation Adoption Maturity
— One Level at a Time Innovation is critical in healthcare — but for most organizations, the real challenge isn’t inventing the next AI-powered diagnostic tool. It’s adopting innovation that [...]
Assessing Your Innovation Maturity Gap
“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” — Cheshire Cat Innovation has never been optional in healthcare. In fact, we wouldn’t be where we [...]
Accelerating Innovation Adoption: An Innovation Maturity Model
The problem in healthcare is not the lack of innovation. The problem is the s-l-o-w pace of innovation adoption. That’s a theme I’ve returned to again and again in my [...]
Turning Your Telehealth Policy Into Real-World Care
This Telehealth Tuesday article was written by Trevor Cunningham, a telehealth consultant on the Ingenium Team.Over the past few years, I have enabled administrators and compliance managers at a variety [...]
The Architecture of a Modern Telehealth Policy
This Telehealth Tuesday article was written by Trevor Cunningham, a telehealth consultant on the Ingenium Team. This article is the second in our three-part Telehealth Tuesday series on building [...]
From Makeshift to Master Plan: Why Mature Healthcare Organizations Need a Purposeful Telehealth Policy
This Telehealth Tuesday article was written by Trevor Cunningham, a telehealth consultant on the Ingenium Team.In just a few short years, telehealth has evolved from a pandemic-era necessity into an [...]