Telehealth & Covid-19
Innovation in a Crisis: A Guide for Healthcare Leaders
Trigger warning: This article contains an unusually high number of overused quotes. Crises in healthcare — whether they involve financial pressures, policy changes, or unexpected disruptions — often lead organizations to retrench, focusing solely [...]
5 Reasons Why Your Clinicians (Still) Don’t Like Telehealth
Despite the accelerated adoption of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic, many clinicians — especially in community health centers, rural health clinics, or smaller rural health systems — continue to resist to use virtual care to [...]
The Future of AI in Healthcare: A Transformational Shift
With the rapid advancements in generative AI over the past two years, Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept in healthcare — it’s a rapidly evolving force that is set to reshape patient [...]
Telehealth: What’s in Store for 2024
The end of a year and beginning of a new year are popular times to make predictions about the future. So with Telehealth Tuesday’s edition #222, here are my three predictions for 2024: A. Telehealth Is Enabling New Care [...]
Best of Telehealth Tuesday 2023
Happy 2024! As we close out 2023 and start afresh with 53 Telehealth Tuesdays in 2024, I wanted to start out with a "best of" Telehealth Tuesday 2023 in an organized fashion that makes it easy to navigate. Whether [...]
Transforming Care Delivery through Telehealth
Most healthcare organizations jumped into telehealth in earnest during the Covid-19 health crisis — not to revolutionize care delivery, but rather to continue to serve the patient population during the highly contagious and deadly pandemic. But even before Covid, [...]
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 [...]