Happy 6th Birthday, Telehealth Tuesday!

Six Years, 320+ Articles, One Mission

Six years ago, in October of 2019, I launched Telehealth Tuesday with a simple goal: publish one thoughtful piece every week (on Tuesday!) to provide telehealth practitioners and healthcare leaders with strategic and actionable guidance to implement, optimize, and scale virtual care.

Today, with 324 articles under my belt, 900+ newsletter subscribers, 1,900+ LinkedIn subscribers and — if I can trust the data — a weekly readership exceeding 1,000 professionals, the small commitment by an “English-as-a-second-language engineer” has evolved from a newsletter into a repository for strategic insight, pragmatic frameworks, and inspiring conversations.

What began as a regular cadence of my commentary “from the trenches” now reflects the maturation of telehealth itself — from pandemic‑response to a sustained element of care delivery. Along the way Telehealth Tuesday has supported clinical leaders, innovation executives, rural providers, and policy architects who face the daily challenge of transforming access, outcomes and cost across complex systems.

For me this anniversary isn’t just about longevity (though I’m proud of this milestone). It’s about impact. Just last week I shared with a group of 30+ telehealth thought leaders, that I see my job as a pollinator: to take good ideas, proven solutions, pragmatic approaches and spread them around – through my Telehealth Tuesday column, through my numerous presentations, and through our consulting engagements,

Health systems, physician practices, community‑based organizations and payers have found the frameworks, case studies and strategic guidance in this series helpful for turning virtual care ambition into operational reality. As we pause to mark year six, it’s worth reflecting on how the content and audience have grown, celebrating the new formats and curated resources launched this year, distilling key lessons from the past 12  months, and casting the vision for where Telehealth Tuesday goes next.

Evolution and Growth

In its earliest months, the series focused primarily on “what is telehealth” and “how to launch video visits”. Over time the questions evolved: How do you sustain telehealth programs? How do you build remote‑patient monitoring (RPM)? How do you deploy AI, optimize workflows, enable rural access, train clinicians and integrate policy? Telehealth Tuesday mirrored that evolution.

The growth is visible in three dimensions:

• Volume and consistency: Publishing at least 52 articles per year (and often more) has created a searchable repository of over 300 pieces that leaders can reference.

• Diversity of topics: From pure launch guidance to advanced themes—such as innovation‑maturity models, rural system transformation, clinician adoption barriers and policy frameworks.

• Audience breadth: The readership now spans system executives, innovation leads, telehealth program directors, telehealth vendors, compliance teams, and rural care operators — moving the series from blog to strategic resource.

This maturation aligns with how the industry has shifted: telehealth is no longer “just video visits” but a component of broader care delivery strategy, digital health architecture and increase in equitable access. The evolution of Telehealth Tuesday reflects that shift, offering pragmatic depth and breadth rather than novelty.

Highlights from the Past Year

Over the past twelve months, Telehealth Tuesday delivered a set of articles that stand out for their traction with readers and relevance to current priorities:

Here are just a few examples:

• AI in Telehealth — exploring how virtual‑care platforms, clinical workflows and decision‑support change when AI becomes part of the stack.

• Digital Equity — examining persistent gaps in access, connectivity and literacy, especially in rural and underserved settings.

• Behavioral Health & Rural Care — spotlighting how telebehavioral services are scaled in low‑density geographies and how telehealth supports continuity of care when in‑person options are limited.

• Telehealth Policy Updates — commentary on the lack of permanent regulatory waivers, reimbursement shifts, licensure compacts and telehealth governance best practices.

In addition to the weekly articles, this year saw the launch of several curated article collections on the Resources page. These collections take subsets of content and organize them for faster reference by leaders. They include:

• The Innovation Maturity Model – a roadmap for organizations to assess and accelerate innovation adoption.

• Overcoming Barriers with Telehealth – tactical strategies for patient, provider and organizational roadblocks.

• Fixing Rural Health with Telehealth – systems‑level ideas for closing rural access gaps and supporting local care ecosystems.

• Proven Telehealth Solutions for Improving Rural Access to Care – a reference set of field‑tested solutions and rationale (in support of the CMS Rural Health Transformation Program)

• Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Optimization Guide – insights on why RPM programs fail and how to make them work.

• Creating a Telehealth Policy (in collaboration with Trevor  Cunningham) – a framework for building a telehealth policy that is not just compliant, but strategic.

Another milestone: a writing collaboration with Dr. Matt  Faiman, our Chief Clinical Officer, on “The Virtual Physical Exam: Bringing Clinical Excellence to Telehealth” — a piece that bridges clinical rigor and optimized virtual‑visit design.

These additions strengthen Telehealth Tuesday’s role as not just commentary, but as an organized knowledge library, enabling busy leaders to go deep when needed and quickly locate frameworks that match their strategic phase.

Reflections & Lessons Learned

Sustained thought‑leadership (year after year, week after week) yields more than content: it reveals patterns, shifts, and enduring challenges.

Here are four of the most meaningful lessons gathered in this journey:

Discipline Outlasts Buzz: The world of digital health is full of hype cycles: new devices, AI breakthroughs, legislative breakdowns, and pandemic‑driven adoption waves. But leaders who succeed are not chasing novelty — they are disciplined about execution, measurement, iteration and integration. In publishing weekly for six years, Telehealth Tuesday has practiced what it preaches: consistency, alignment, and practical language.

Frameworks Create Clarity: One‑off articles are helpful — but curated frameworks (maturity models, modality matrices, policy architectures) offer sustainable value. Leaders tell us they return to those frameworks when designing new initiatives, benchmarking current state, or structuring governance. Content tied to a model offers more “what to do” than “what to know.”

Context Always Matters: Telehealth isn’t one‑size fits all. The rural hospital in Wyoming, the academic health system in the Northeast, the community health center in the Southeast — they all face different resources, constraints, and priorities. The most valuable content is neither generic nor ultra‑niche — it acknowledges the context and offers an adaptable strategy. Telehealth Tuesday has leaned into that with case studies, practical tactics, and multi‑scenario thinking.

The “Why” Must Come Before the “How”: Technology and modalities will keep changing. But the underlying question remains: Why are we doing telehealth? Early articles often asked “Can we do this?” Over time the better question became “Why this now, for whom, and how will we operate it over time?” Content that anchors to the mission — access, equity, care redesign, clinician enablement — resonates more deeply than feature‑driven pieces. Telehealth Tuesday has remained grounded in that mission.

Looking Ahead: What’s Next for Telehealth Tuesday

As we mark six years, it’s appropriate not just to look back but to look forward. Here is how Telehealth Tuesday intends to evolve and expand its service to you — the healthcare leader, innovator, clinician‑executive, strategist.

Transforming Content into Formats: We will eventually move beyond weekly articles to create new formats: eBooks based on the curated collections, webinars tied to deeper dives, Q&A sessions with industry leaders, and perhaps a mini‑podcast series focusing on “lessons from the field.” The idea: make the content accessible in more ways for busy leaders.

Syndication: A few months ago, the “news section” at Telehealth.org started publishing a curated subset of Telehealth Tuesday articles to reach a broader audience and spread the knowledge even further.

Expanding Community Engagement: Content is richer when others contribute. This year, we’ve added guest contributors and provided commentary on others publications or research reports. We will look for more opportunities to add guest voices, collaborative pieces, reader‑question specials, and curated real‑world telehealth success/failure stories from across the country. Your insights, channeled into the newsletter and resources, will strengthen the collective value.

Deepening Application & Tools: Beyond frameworks and articles, we’ll continue to develop tools: self‑assessments (innovation maturity, telehealth readiness, digital equity gap), diagnostic worksheets, decision‑trees, and playbooks. The vision: go from insight → to evaluation → to action, not just reading.

Maintaining Mission, Scaling Reach: While formats evolve, the mission holds: enable the delivery of extraordinary care, everywhere. As telehealth continues to integrate into mainstream delivery, Telehealth Tuesday will aim to reach more decision‑makers, more settings (rural, urban, underserved) and more modalities (telebehavioral, RPM, hybrid prenatal, hospital‑at‑home). The goal remains the same: help leaders do telehealth better.

A Word of Gratitude

In six years, Telehealth Tuesday has grown from a weekly impulse sent out to a set of “subscribers” that I met at a telehealth conference in Vegas to a structured, mission‑driven resource for leaders navigating the evolving digital‑health landscape. With 300+ articles, 1,000+ weekly readers, and dozens of curated collections, the series now offers both breadth and depth.

As the industry moves from launch to optimization, from novelty to maturity, Telehealth Tuesday will evolve with it — organizing content, broadening formats, and deepening community engagement. The challenge ahead for healthcare organizations remains real: how to integrate telehealth not as a “nice‑to‑have,” but as a core, equitable pillar of care delivery. Telehealth Tuesday exists to support that transformation with clarity, consistency and collaboration.

Thank you to every reader, every contributor, every organizational partner. Here’s to the next phase — ready to publish, ready to guide, ready to help shape the future of care.

What topics would you like me to cover? Where should I dive deeper into? Reach out to let me know.