Telehealth & Covid-19
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Future of AI in Healthcare: A Transformational Shift
With the rapid advancements in generative AI over the past two years, Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept in healthcare — it’s a rapidly evolving force that is set to reshape patient care, clinical workflows, and provider-patient [...]
Optimizing Telebehavioral Health Performance
At the core, any optimization of behavioral health starts with a look at opportunities to increase capacity and subsequently the utilization of that capacity. With growing behavioral health clinician shortages, each appointment slot potentially represents a critical lifeline for a [...]
Aligning Clinician and Patient Telehealth Expectations
Telehealth has experienced a meteoric rise in adoption over the past few years, driven largely by necessity during the pandemic. Patients, having experienced the convenience of virtual care, have increasingly expressed a preference for telehealth services. However, despite this enthusiasm, [...]
Bridging Healthcare Gaps: Telemedicine in Modern Hospitals
In the face of mounting challenges, telemedicine has emerged as a transformative force in healthcare, particularly for rural hospitals. During a recent Telehealth T-Time talk titled "Bridging Healthcare Gaps: The Role of Telemedicine in Modern Hospitals," Dr. Vimarsh Raina provided [...]
Payment Parity: Should Virtual Care Cost Less?
In last week’s Telehealth Tuesday, I tackled the myth that telehealth drives up healthcare costs, showing how expanded access doesn’t necessarily mean higher spending. This week, let’s explore another common misconception oftentimes perpetuated by politicians: We should be able to [...]
Does Telehealth Really Drive Up Costs
Last week, at the January 2025 Telehealth T-Time, Chris Adamec, Executive Director of the Alliance for Connected Care, shared a list of common perceptions that policymakers are currently holding about telehealth. One of the most striking of these was the [...]















