Telehealth & Covid-19
The Seven Pillars of Telehealth Value
Why after 30 years Telehealth is still Healthcare's Most Underutilized Strategic Asset Depending on who you ask, Telehealth (the “delivery of care at a distance”) goes back to the 1950s (transmitting an ECG), the [...]
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 [...]
Video Visit Vendor Selection: Defining Needs and Requirements
As the use of telehealth to “provide care at a distance” is becoming a more and more acceptable mainstream service, some organizations are evaluating whether their solution for video visits is truly the one that is the best fit [...]
Increasing the ROI of RPM
Last week I wrote about the importance of workflows to ensure success with Remote Physiological Monitoring (RPM), so it is timely that this past Friday, Modern Healthcare posted an article on the same topic: How hospitals are having a hard [...]
For RPM Success, Workflows are Key
With a steady increase in chronic diseases, Remote Physiological Monitoring (RPM) provides clinicians with a great, non-invasive tool to not only keep track of patients key vital signs, but also use the monitoring to increase patients’ participation in their [...]
7 Considerations When Launching School-based Telehealth
The ability for students to be seen by a provider not physically located at the school has been around for at least 20 years. Even before the Covid pandemic, the use of telehealth in School-Based Health Centers (SBHC) grew almost [...]
6 Smart Moves to Optimize Telehealth
At the Telehealth T-Time Event in July 2024 I gave a talk on “The Unused Value of Telehealth” — how healthcare provider organizations are missing out on a multitude of value propositions that telehealth can provide when used appropriately [...]
Essential Tools for Optimizing Telehealth
Optimization is commonly defined as the act of making the best use of a resource. Optimization is also a mindset to continually improve: not to pursue perfection, but to continue to reduce wasted time or resources. If we were living [...]