Telehealth & Covid-19
Maximizing RHTP Telehealth Funding: A Proven Blueprint For Success
This week's Telehealth Tuesday examines how states can maximize their Rural Health Transformation Program telehealth investments through coordinated implementation rather than fragmented, vendor-driven approaches. The $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program represents a once-in-a-generation [...]
Telehealth Vendor Selection: Defining Needs and Requirements
As the need for timely access to a wide variety of healthcare services, especially in rural areas, is increasing, Telehealth — "providing care at a distance" — bridges distances, transportation challenges, and lack of specialty [...]
Verify Before You Start: Can Your New Telehealth Service Deliver?
Launching a telehealth service is easy. Designing a telehealth service that creates lasting strategic, financial, and clinical value? That’s the hard part. As states participating in the Rural Health Transformation Project (RHTP) begin identifying digital [...]
Designing for Telehealth Sustainability: To Launch Is Not Enough
The launch goes live. The dashboard lights up. Everyone celebrates. Six months later, the telehealth service is barely being utilized — and no one notices. That’s not a tech failure. That’s a systems failure. The problem is systemic: many [...]
The Vendor Trap: Why Buying Telehealth Isn’t Implementing Telehealth
Why RHTP success depends on implementation discipline, not vendor selection. When states submitted their RHTP applications, many wisely included telehealth as a way to strengthen rural health delivery. Now those same teams face a tougher challenge: turning those commitments into [...]
Happy 6th Birthday, Telehealth Tuesday!
Six Years, 320+ Articles, One Mission Six years ago, in October of 2019, I launched Telehealth Tuesday with a simple goal: publish one thoughtful piece every week (on Tuesday!) to provide telehealth practitioners and healthcare leaders with strategic and actionable [...]
18 Proven Telehealth Solutions
Improving Access to Maternal Care
Maternal care deserts are growing in rural America, leaving pregnant patients with few options, long travel times, and inconsistent access to essential services. As of 2025, nearly half of U.S. counties now have no hospital-based obstetric services, and rural [...]
Innovation Isn’t About Technology – It’s About Building a Culture That Embraces Change
I recently had the privilege of joining Dr. Rhiannon Winsor on The Exam Room podcast to talk about what innovation really means for FQHCs and community health centers. What struck me during our conversation is how often "innovation" gets [...]
Getting Telehealth Right Means Getting the Basics Right
Occasionally, Telehealth Tuesday readers and colleagues send me reports for comment. A few weeks ago, Hannah Jelliman from the UK-based telehealth platform Whereby shared their latest market research. Here’s my take on what it gets right — and what it [...]