Telehealth & Covid-19
Bridging the Distance: Telehealth for Unbridged Islands
Imagine needing medical care—but there are no roads, no bridges, and weather conditions can delay travel for days. For residents of islands, even if they are just off-shore, but with no bridge connecting them [...]
Success with Telebehavioral Health:
5 Tactics to Keeping Students Engaged
Delivering behavioral health services to teenagers has never been simple — but it’s especially complex when the connection is virtual and the setting is a school or the home. Unlike traditional therapy spaces that [...]
Is Telehealth a Clinic Killer?
Since the beginning of the year — after Chris Adamec’s great talk at the January 2025 Telehealth T-Time — I’ve been debunking common myths that politicians and other healthcare non-experts may hold. I questioned whether [...]
Healthcare’s Convoluted Business Model That Stifles Innovation Adoption
In essence, a business model is a plan for how to make a profit. But business plans are not just limited to startup ventures, digital health vendors, or healthcare delivery organizations. Business models apply to any innovation in business [...]
A Waste of Telehealth: Are You Leaving Patients Behind and Money on the Table?
Telehealth, when deployed properly, offers tremendous benefits to patients and great financial value to clinics. Yet most healthcare CEOs and especially CMOs seemingly are oblivious to telehealth’s potential as an antidote to many of the serious problems their organizations [...]
Telehealth in Libraries: Read a Book, See a Doc
During this spring’s telehealth conference season (held by MATRC, NRTRC, gpTRAC, and ATA) I have heard about multiple initiatives to bring access to care through booths and Telehealth Access Points in libraries. In addition to the Delaware library system’s [...]
The Problem in Healthcare Is Not the Lack of Innovation
The problem in healthcare is not the lack of innovation. The problem in healthcare is the ineptitude of healthcare leaders and digital health vendors to create a meaningful, sustainable adoption of innovative services and solutions. The problem is their [...]
Telehealth 2024: Divergence
The repetitive expansion and contraction is a universal pattern of life. It’s a pattern I enjoy finding (and try to accept, especially the contraction part) in my personal and professional life. Spring and Summer bring abundance of life, followed by [...]
Big Business’ Telehealth Experiment On the American Patient
The notion that “Access to Care is a Human Right” is one I can very much wrap my mind around and throw my support behind. In Germany, where I was born and grew up, there is neither Universal Care nor [...]