Telehealth & Covid-19
5 Reasons Why RPM Programs Fail
Over the past years, RPM (Remote Physiological Monitoring), has garnered a lot of interest over the years, but so have reports by many healthcare organizations that RPM programs are not producing the expected results. In [...]
Rural Telehealth: Beyond Video Visits
One of the biggest challenges facing rural America is access to care and the barriers to accessing care are manifold, including transportation, time, and technology. Obviously one solution is to access care through a [...]
Barriers to Accessing Care in Rural America
The primary reason for the challenges in accessing care in rural areas is the growing shortage of clinicians practicing in rural areas. According to one statistic, only 1 in 10 primary care physicians serving [...]
Can Virtual First Become the Norm?
Last week I had an interesting, enjoyable experience. When asking our 13-year old’s primary care provider for a referral to an allergist for her eczema and presumed heat rash, we were told that the first visit would be via [...]
Traditional Healthcare Needs a Paradigm Shift
This week's Telehealth Tuesday article is based on Dr. Erkan Hassan's recent article on the same topic. Dr. Hassan is a member of the Ingenium Healthcare Advisors Consortium and brings over 20 years of virtual critical care medicine experience. [...]
Virtual Care: From Strategy to Action to Results
This week's edition of Telehealth Tuesday is a guest post by my long-term collaborator and business partner Kathy Letendre. Her bi-weekly newsletter, Excellence Inspirations, is a treat for all existing and aspiring leaders. If you are interested in inspiring [...]
3 Tactics for Sustainable Virtual Care
By now it's obvious to everyone that virtual care is here to stay. It offers demonstrable benefits in terms of convenient access to care leading to increased continuity of care which can result in improved outcomes and lower cost [...]
Increasing Provider Capacity through Virtual Care
Author’s note: Today’s article marks the 200th edition of Telehealth Tuesday. Launched well before Covid in 2018, Telehealth Tuesday has helped me to capture the many lessons we’ve learned in helping organizations to launch, optimize, or grow their telehealth services [...]
Telehealth Creates Strategic Success
Over the past week’s I’ve been writing a lot about the what, the how, and the why of measuring the performance of your telehealth services. Today’s column presents another argument as to why measuring telehealth performance is important: because telehealth [...]