Telehealth Tuesday Articles

A patient picks up the phone. The voice on the other end sounds calm and competent — until it doesn't quite fit. Maybe it stumbles over a name. Maybe it [...]

Telehealth comes in many different flavors including store & forward (sending photos), remote patient monitoring (automatic vital sign upload) and interactive care that can be synchronous (video visits, phone [...]

I spent yesterday afternoon in a room with about 40 telehealth leaders at the MATRC Summit, running a workshop we had been building toward since last October. That's when the [...]

The Knowledge Is Already There — Here's How to Find It Healthcare leaders today are not suffering from a shortage of information. If anything, the opposite is true. Between CMS [...]

Why most programs plateau — and what it takes to reach the top Rural health systems across the country are now sitting on a significant opportunity. The CMS Rural [...]

Somewhere in America right now, there is a beautifully designed telehealth access point sitting largely unused in a library corner, a community center hallway, or a pharmacy waiting room. The [...]

Virtual care is no longer a novelty. Direct-to-consumer platforms like Ro and BetterHelp, along with retail entrants like Amazon's One Medical, are proving that convenient, on-demand care has real consumer [...]

Most leaders think of telehealth as a clinical tool — a way to reach a patient who can't easily get to the clinic. That's true. It's also just a small [...]

A few decades ago, much of the African continent skipped a stage of infrastructure that took the rest of the world a century to build. Many countries never built [...]

In last week’s article, Kathy Letendre and I made the case that TeleEmergency is rural America's most urgent telehealth priority — and that the CMS Rural Health Transformation Program presents [...]

There is a phrase that sums up the entire promise and urgency of emergency telehealth into seven words: "The fastest access to the best care." That is not a [...]

Four Years of Trying. Then Everything Changed. How Moses Lake Community Health Center Finally Made Telehealth Work — and What Any Rural FQHC Can Learn From Their Journey Most [...]

Why Good People Doing Good Things Is Not Enough to Fully Leverage Telehealth's Potential In May 2026, the American Telemedicine Association held its 30th annual conference. I have attended about [...]

The main reason many RHTP initiatives will fall short of achieving the outcomes expected by CMS is not technology — it is the unmanaged resistance to change by clinicians, [...]

At the core of every rural health transformation is one fundamental task: creating the desire in clinicians, staff, patients, and leaders to do things differently. As most leaders in [...]

Inspired by Stephen Covey's "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" In 1976, a doctoral student named Stephen Covey set out to understand what made people truly effective. His [...]

A quote from Dr. Charlie Mayo has stayed with me since my years at the Mayo Clinic:"Today, the only thing that is permanent is change."Dr. Mayo’s guidance to the clinic [...]

The Rural Health Transformation Program is putting billions of dollars into rural healthcare — and with it comes an expectation that things will actually change. Not just that technology [...]

With millions of dollars in Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) funding now flowing to organizations in all 50 states, rural hospitals, critical access hospitals, and health systems face a pivotal [...]

A question that surfaces regularly among rural hospital leaders — and deserves a direct answer: "Are rural hospitals, critical access hospitals, and 'tweeners' better off financially as a result of [...]

The Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) has attracted a lot of attention — and a lot of vendors. Within weeks of states announcing their RHTP funding awards, technology companies began [...]

RHTP funding is arriving — and with it, a wave of technology purchasing decisions. Advanced imaging systems. Telehealth platforms. Remote patient monitoring programs. AI-powered scribing tools. Consumer-facing digital health solutions. [...]

The Rural Health Transformation Program has set a remarkable amount of activity into motion — 50 state applications submitted, awards issued, revised budgets under review, and RFPs at the [...]

This article is based on a webinar presented by Jen Donathan, Shari Snyder, Ryan Baker, and Christian Milaster for Generation West Virginia’s Broadband Technical Assistance Webinar Series. There is [...]