Telehealth & Covid-19
9 Proven Telehealth Solutions Improving Chronic Disease Management
Chronic disease is the leading cause of death, disability, and healthcare spending in the U.S. — and it disproportionately impacts rural communities. Yet rural patients with diabetes, hypertension, COPD, and heart failure often face delayed [...]
16 Proven Telehealth Solutions Improving Access to Rural Primary Care
Primary care is the foundation of a high-functioning healthcare system, but in rural America, it is also one of the most fragile. Many communities lack enough clinicians so patients often have to travel long [...]
11 Proven Telehealth Solutions Improving Access to Emergency Care
This is the second article in a multi-part series spotlighting proven telehealth-enabled solutions that address the goals outlined in CMS's Rural Health Transformation Program. Each installment will focus on a different area of care [...]
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 [...]
Patient Activation: The Secret to RPM Success
RPM, Remote Physiological Monitoring, is a proven, valuable telehealth solution that can greatly improve outcomes for patients with chronic diseases or prevent readmissions of patients recently discharged from the hospital. A few weeks ago I outlined the 5 Reasons [...]
Creating RPM Success by Designing Superb Support
In this third article of our series on overcoming the 5 Reasons Why RPM Programs Fail, we are exploring the root cause of reason #4 “Lack of Clinician Buy In” and reason #1 “Lack of Patient Engagement”. It's the [...]
Improving the ROI of RPM Programs
Remote Physiological Monitoring (RPM) is a powerful clinical tool to help patients manage their chronic conditions, prevent hospital readmissions, or to facilitate an early hospital discharge through a hospital at home service. But many RPM programs, especially in support of [...]
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 [...]