Telehealth & Covid-19
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 two dozen healthcare organizations: “What [...]
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 wide-spread stigma around seeking help [...]
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, figuring out policies, or provider [...]
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. Having been involved in the design and implementation of technical [...]
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 your market, value proposition, and business model SET UP – [...]
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 from the comfort of their home…or their Air BnB on [...]
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 Startup?”. It was aimed at clinicians eager to build something [...]
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 already exists. Proven innovative solutions are readily available, yet too [...]
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 are today in medicine without thousands of innovations — from [...]