Telehealth & Covid-19
Blueprint for Sustainable Virtual Care:
3 Tactics to Drive Long-Term Success
Virtual care is no longer a luxury — it’s the foundation of modern healthcare delivery. Recent surveys reveal that at least 2 out of 3 patients now expect their healthcare providers to offer digital options [...]
Are Rural Hospitals Better Off Because of Telehealth?
For the past few months, I’ve been writing quite a bit about the use of telehealth to fix rural healthcare. A few weeks ago, someone in my extended network posed a great question on LinkedIn: [...]
Patient Activation: The Secret to RPM Success
RPM, Remote Physiological Monitoring, is a proven, valuable telehealth solution that can greatly improve outcomes for patients with chronic diseases or prevent readmissions of patients recently discharged from the hospital. A few weeks ago [...]
Creating RPM Success by Designing Superb Support
In this third article of our series on overcoming the 5 Reasons Why RPM Programs Fail, we are exploring the root cause of reason #4 “Lack of Clinician Buy In” and reason #1 “Lack of Patient Engagement”. It's the [...]
Improving the ROI of RPM Programs
Remote Physiological Monitoring (RPM) is a powerful clinical tool to help patients manage their chronic conditions, prevent hospital readmissions, or to facilitate an early hospital discharge through a hospital at home service. But many RPM programs, especially in support of [...]
5 Reasons Why RPM Programs Fail
Over the past years, RPM (Remote Physiological Monitoring), has garnered a lot of interest over the years, but so have reports by many healthcare organizations that RPM programs are not producing the expected results. In this first part of our [...]
Rural Telehealth: Beyond Video Visits
One of the biggest challenges facing rural America is access to care and the barriers to accessing care are manifold, including transportation, time, and technology. Obviously one solution is to access care through a video visit. But even that [...]
Barriers to Accessing Care in Rural America
The primary reason for the challenges in accessing care in rural areas is the growing shortage of clinicians practicing in rural areas. According to one statistic, only 1 in 10 primary care physicians serving Medicare patients practice in rural [...]
Launching a New Video Visit Vendor
with a Proof-of-Concept
Over the past few editions we’ve covered the various stages and numerous steps of selecting a new video visit vendor. This is the fifth and final article in our series on Vendor Selection. We started by setting the stage with [...]