Telehealth & Covid-19
A Shopping List for Sublime Telehealth
Every extraordinary recipe for a sublime dish relies on superb ingredients and high-grade kitchen tools that the seasoned chefs carefully procure and maintain. The secret behind sublime telehealth, lies in a similar list of [...]
Why Healthcare Organizations need a Telehealth Strategy
A bridge is typically a metaphor for creating a shortcut, crossing a chasm, or to overcome an obstacle like a river. A Telehealth Strategy serves the same purpose: to navigate you confidently across and [...]
The Basics of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM)
For months now we have been covering the telemedicine subset of “Interactive Patient Care’, which is typically delivered via a live audio/video connection, though during the Covid-19 health crisis (too) many are still using [...]
Telehealth for Post-Acute Care
Telehealth is often thought of as a tool to conduct video visits for “regular”, non-acute care. A few weeks ago I covered a number of use cases for telehealth within the hospital and in this article we’ll be looking [...]
The Digital Health Future is Already Here – It is Just Not Evenly Distributed
Even before the Covid-19 health crisis the Digital Health future was already here. It just was not evenly distributed and only existed in isolated experiments and trials. But Covid-19 has accelerated the use of digital health technologies including the [...]
TeleAcuteCare – Telehealth in the Hospital
In the middle of the Covid-19 health crisis most of us think of telehealth as a way to keep people out of the clinic environment, out of the hospital. But there are a number of excellent use cases for [...]
Telehealth Visits are more Secure, Offer more Privacy
Did that headline stump you? Do you think of telehealth as offering more privacy or less privacy than an in-person visit? We live in interesting times and not just because of Covid-19. Data breaches, identity theft and other data [...]
Healthcare Innovation: My Take on 7 Big Ideas
Last week, Beckers’ Hospital Review posted a collection of quotes from 9 healthcare leaders about the role of innovation in healthcare. What’s striking about the list of quotes is how widely these leaders recognize the importance of delivering care [...]
Getting the Telehealth Results you Want
Over the past weeks I covered in a series of articles how you can measure and create telehealth success and make telehealth enjoyable for physicians. This week, I’ll focus on how you can actually get the telehealth results you [...]