Telehealth & Covid-19
Choosing an AI Voice Vendor Is Easy If You Diagnose First
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 calls) and asynchronous (secure texting, messaging). [...]
Integrated Telehealth Is Already Here.
It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed.
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 AHA Center for Telehealth and [...]
Leading and Implementing Digital & Telehealth: 350 Articles of Field-Developed Guidance
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 guidance, vendor white papers, conference [...]
The Five Layers of Extraordinary Telehealth
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 Health Transformation Program has made it possible to invest in [...]
The Telehealth Access Point Trap:
Why Building the Booth Is the Easy Part
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 lighting is warm. The room has been UV disinfected. The [...]
Virtual Care Sustainability Isn’t a Technology Problem
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 demand — and real competitive pull away from traditional health [...]
RHTP Funds Telehealth. Telehealth Funds
Your Strategy. Know the Difference.
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 part of what telehealth can do for your organization. In [...]
Rural Health’s Leapfrog Transformation:
From In-Person- to Virtual-First
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 extensive landline networks — they moved straight to mobile. The [...]
Rural Health Implementation Science: TeleEmergency
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 a great opportunity to fund the closing of that gap. [...]