Telehealth & Covid-19
So, Doctor, You Want to Launch a Telehealth Clinic?
9 questions to ask before turning your clinical expertise into a virtual practice A few years ago, I wrote an article titled “So, Doctor, You Want to Launch a Startup?”. It was aimed at [...]
Growing Your Innovation Adoption Maturity
— One Level at a Time Innovation is critical in healthcare — but for most organizations, the real challenge isn’t inventing the next AI-powered diagnostic tool. It’s adopting innovation that already exists. Proven innovative solutions [...]
Assessing Your Innovation Maturity Gap
“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” — Cheshire Cat Innovation has never been optional in healthcare. In fact, we wouldn’t be where we are today in medicine without [...]
Making Telemedicine Enjoyable for Physicians
Are your physicians fully embracing telemedicine as an acceptable care delivery modality? Are you, as a clinician, fully comfortable with telemedicine? If not, read on. I may have a diagnosis and treatment plan that can lead to physicians enjoying [...]
Setting the Telehealth Keystone: Clinician Engagement
In the mid 2000s I designed and built a highly energy-efficient home in Minnesota that had no furnace and was off-the-grid, off-the well. The house’s two sole sources of heat were a passive solar design (soaking up that sunshine [...]
The Virtual Care Bill of Patients’ Rights
When I first entered healthcare in the year 2000, I did so in the hallowed halls of the Mayo Clinic, where the spirits of the Mayo brothers, Will and Charlie, and their father, William Worrall, where still setting the tone: [...]
Tech-Enabled Care Model for the Community Health Center of the Future
While Community Health Centers have long used technology, mostly for managing operations and the revenue cycle, many CHCs are only just now beginning to employ more “modern” technologies such as data analytics and, mostly fueled by the Covid-19 health crisis, [...]
Implementing Supportive Technologies for the Health Center of the Future
The Framework for the Health Center of the Future provides a simple yet comprehensive roadmap for community health centers to prepare for a sustainable future. At the core of the framework are the three elements of a health center’s [...]
Healthcare Center of the Future: Enabling and Supportive Technologies
For Community Health Centers to chart a course for the future, last week we shared a Framework for the Health Center of the Future developed by a multidisciplinary team brought together by the Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center (MATRC). At [...]