Telehealth & Covid-19
A Systems Approach to Solving
Rural America’s Healthcare Crisis
How telehealth can transform rural communities when deployed thoughtfully, comprehensively, and with deep respect for the people we serve. Rural healthcare isn't broken, it's systematically underserved — and now, in 2025, seemingly grossly underfunded. Yet [...]
Standardizing Telehealth Training
Start with strategy. Ground it in policy. Make workflows real. Then train. I was recently asked a thoughtful question based on a the collective insights of a group from about two dozen healthcare organizations: “What [...]
Scaling Rural Telebehavioral Health: Five Interventions That Actually Work
Rural communities face some of the steepest barriers to behavioral health care in the country — long travel distances, limited connectivity, low digital literacy, a pronounced clinical provider shortage, and wide-spread stigma around seeking help [...]
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 [...]
Happy 5th Birthday, Telehealth Tuesday
Hey Everyone! Before I continue with our “regular programming” next week, I’d like to take a moment to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Telehealth Tuesday. 5 years ago, on Tuesday, October 8, 2019 I sent out the first Telehealth [...]
Effective Implementation of A New Video Visit Solution
Congratulations! You’ve successfully selected a vendor after you gathered your requirements and defined your needs. The hard part is over. Or is it? In reality, now is when the “real work” begins. Fortunately these days, the technical part of the [...]