Telehealth & Covid-19
7 Considerations When Launching School-based Telehealth
The ability for students to be seen by a provider not physically located at the school has been around for at least 20 years. Even before the Covid pandemic, the use of telehealth in School-Based [...]
6 Smart Moves to Optimize Telehealth
At the Telehealth T-Time Event in July 2024 I gave a talk on “The Unused Value of Telehealth” — how healthcare provider organizations are missing out on a multitude of value propositions that telehealth [...]
Essential Tools for Optimizing Telehealth
Optimization is commonly defined as the act of making the best use of a resource. Optimization is also a mindset to continually improve: not to pursue perfection, but to continue to reduce wasted time or [...]
Are You With the Herd or Just Looking On?
For most people, there is safety in numbers and following what the majority of other people (or, especially in the US, other people like you) are doing, must be okay and safe to do as well. The [...]
Patient Experience, Patient Satisfaction, Patient Engagement: What’s the Difference?
My introduction to healthcare came in 2000 when I joined the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Having never been exposed to healthcare before and having only moved to the US two years prior, little did I [...]
No Digital Front Door:
Failing the Modern Healthcare Consumer
After Telehealth’s prime time moment during the Covid-19 health crisis, much attention this year has been focused back on the “digital front door” — the set of digital technologies through which interactions of the Modern Healthcare [...]
96 Common Video Telemedicine Scenarios
If you’ve been reading my Telehealth Tuesday column for a while, you know that I always urge my readers to pay particular attention to the various workflows leading up to and following the actual telemedicine visit. [...]
What Is Your Team’s CPT Code?
In the world of healthcare, a CPT® code refers to the (trademarked) acronym of the Current Procedural Terminology, a set of codes describing medical procedures received by patients. In the world of communications, a code is a [...]
Sustainable Telehealth & Digital Health Success: Be Brisk, Go Big, Go Bold — Or Go Broke!
By now, the spring of 2023, the leadership of any healthcare organization should have figured out two inevitable truths: Telehealth is here to stay, will continue to grow, will over time replace most in-person care interactions [...]