Telehealth & Covid-19
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 [...]
Overcoming 7 Common Barriers to Telehealth Adoption
Telehealth has revolutionized access to care, but adoption remains uneven across populations and health settings. Despite years of progress and post-pandemic normalization, many patients and providers still face significant obstacles. This week, we examine the [...]
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 [...]
Why Physicians Don’t Like Being on Camera
Over four years post-pandemic it feels almost antiquated to refer back to the Covid-19 health crisis of 2020-2022, but it was a turning point for many people and also for telehealth.Prior to Covid, telehealth did have strong support by many [...]