Telehealth & Covid-19
12 Telehealth-Powered Solutions for Overcoming 3 Common Healthcare Barriers for Patients
Telehealth has proven its value across a wide spectrum of care, but persistent barriers are keeping patients from taking full advantage of all that telehealth has to offer. Despite increasing adoption and broader acceptance of [...]
Telehealth’s Role in Tailoring Prenatal Care
For almost a hundred years, prenatal care in the U.S. has followed a predictable rhythm: 12 to 14 in-person visits, spaced like clockwork, oftentimes regardless of a patient’s risk, resources, or preferences. But as digital [...]
Overcoming 7 Common Barriers to Telehealth Adoption
Telehealth has revolutionized access to care, but adoption remains uneven across populations and health settings. Despite years of progress and post-pandemic normalization, many patients and providers still face significant obstacles. This week, we examine the [...]
A Virtual Conversation with a Telehealth Denier
While one Ebenezer Scrooge had animated conversations with three ghosts, I envisioned over the holidays what it would be like to have a spirited debate with a fictional yet vocal telehealth skeptic, whom I’ll affectionately refer to as "The Telehealth [...]
Best of Telehealth Tuesday 2024
Happy 2025! As we close out 2024, I’m excited to share this special “Best Of” Telehealth Tuesdays edition, highlighting the most popular and impactful articles from the past year. Whether you’re new to telehealth or a seasoned professional, there’s something [...]
The Gift That Keeps Expiring:
A 3-Month Telehealth Extension?
Lawmakers Extend Telehealth — But Where’s the Permanence? This holiday season 2024, lawmakers delivered what many in the healthcare community see as a gift: a temporary extension of telehealth flexibilities through March 2025. For many patients, especially in rural areas [...]
A Glimpse of the Future of Care Delivery via Telehealth
The ultimate nirvana of human physical wellbeing would be the absence of disease and injury. But even in a world where all diseases are successfully prevented, someone (or something), presumably, still needs to administer those prophylactic treatments. For the [...]
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 — or risk losing them [...]
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: "Are rural hospitals (critical access [...]