Telehealth & Covid-19
Payment Parity: Should Virtual Care Cost Less?
In last week’s Telehealth Tuesday, I tackled the myth that telehealth drives up healthcare costs, showing how expanded access doesn’t necessarily mean higher spending. This week, let’s explore another common misconception oftentimes perpetuated by politicians: [...]
Does Telehealth Really Drive Up Costs
Last week, at the January 2025 Telehealth T-Time, Chris Adamec, Executive Director of the Alliance for Connected Care, shared a list of common perceptions that policymakers are currently holding about telehealth. One of the most [...]
The Future of Healthcare Delivery: Telehealth
As 2024 was nearing its end, a group of Telehealth Enthusiasts got together as part of the December Telehealth T-Time meeting to design the future of healthcare delivery. Kicking off the gathering was the keynote [...]
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 [...]
100% Telehealth is not a Dream
Over the past years, telehealth has proven itself to be a viable approach to delivering care safely and effectively in many cases, under many circumstances. While telehealth will never replace 100% of in-person care, we can and we should [...]
The 3 Most Effective Telehealth Marketing Tactics
Marketing Your Telehealth Services to Your CommunityGood marketing is about understanding customers’ needs and offering solutions and services to satisfy their needs in a way that resonates with them.In essence, though Marketing is first and foremost a strategy. Marketing itself [...]
Guiding Clinicians to Use Telehealth Well
In last week’s Telehealth Tuesday article I posed the question:Is Telehealth Rocket Science? The answer?No, Telehealth is not Rocket Science. But getting clinicians to use telehealth well, is.To get clinicians to embrace telehealth, clinicians need Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Skill, and [...]