Telehealth & Covid-19
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Telehealth: What’s in Store for 2024
The end of a year and beginning of a new year are popular times to make predictions about the future. So with Telehealth Tuesday’s edition #222, here are my three predictions for 2024: A. Telehealth Is Enabling New Care [...]
Best of Telehealth Tuesday 2023
Happy 2024! As we close out 2023 and start afresh with 53 Telehealth Tuesdays in 2024, I wanted to start out with a "best of" Telehealth Tuesday 2023 in an organized fashion that makes it easy to navigate. Whether [...]
Transforming Care Delivery through Telehealth
Most healthcare organizations jumped into telehealth in earnest during the Covid-19 health crisis — not to revolutionize care delivery, but rather to continue to serve the patient population during the highly contagious and deadly pandemic. But even before Covid, [...]
From Chaos to Supported: Growing Telehealth Maturity
In last week’s article, I posed the question: How Mature is Your Telehealth Program? In today's Telehealth Tuesday column I’ll dive deeper into the first four levels of telehealth maturity: from chaotic to emerging to coordinated to supported. [...]
How Mature is Your Telehealth Program?
While Telehealth has been around since the mid 1990s, albeit mostly in academic medical centers, an overnight adoption of telehealth across virtually all specialties and with numerous modalities was brought on by the Covid-19 health crisis in 2020. While [...]
Extraordinary Telehealth’s Hierarchy of Needs
Many of us, mostly in college, have come across the framework of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. To reach the highest level, the level of self-actualization, people first need to have some of their basic (physiological) needs met, such as [...]