Telehealth & Covid-19
A Glimpse of the Future of Care Delivery via Telehealth
The ultimate nirvana of human physical wellbeing would be the absence of disease and injury. But even in a world where all diseases are successfully prevented, someone (or something), presumably, still needs to administer [...]
Blueprint for Sustainable Virtual Care:
3 Tactics to Drive Long-Term Success
Virtual care is no longer a luxury — it’s the foundation of modern healthcare delivery. Recent surveys reveal that at least 2 out of 3 patients now expect their healthcare providers to offer digital options [...]
Are Rural Hospitals Better Off Because of Telehealth?
For the past few months, I’ve been writing quite a bit about the use of telehealth to fix rural healthcare. A few weeks ago, someone in my extended network posed a great question on LinkedIn: [...]
8 Reasons Why Clinicians are Apprehensive About Telehealth
…and what to do about it. When your organization finally embraces telehealth, recognizing it as a critical strategic tool to give your “modern healthcare consumers” (a.k.a. patients) what they want (i.e., convenience) you're still left with a problem. How do [...]
Serving More Patients Through Virtual Care
While virtual care is becoming increasingly more ubiquitous — holding steady in primary care and continuing to grow in behavioral health — it is still often seen as merely an alternative care delivery method. Most leaders undervalue and underutilize [...]
Using Virtual Care to Care For More Patients
Telehealth visits are often thought of as an alternative care delivery method when patients cannot easily come into the clinic due to transportation challenges, child care challenges, or because they can’t easily take time off from work. But virtual care [...]
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 [...]















