Telehealth & Covid-19
Payment Parity: Should Virtual Care Cost Less?
In last week’s Telehealth Tuesday, I tackled the myth that telehealth drives up healthcare costs, showing how expanded access doesn’t necessarily mean higher spending. This week, let’s explore another common misconception oftentimes perpetuated by politicians: [...]
Does Telehealth Really Drive Up Costs
Last week, at the January 2025 Telehealth T-Time, Chris Adamec, Executive Director of the Alliance for Connected Care, shared a list of common perceptions that policymakers are currently holding about telehealth. One of the most [...]
The Future of Healthcare Delivery: Telehealth
As 2024 was nearing its end, a group of Telehealth Enthusiasts got together as part of the December Telehealth T-Time meeting to design the future of healthcare delivery. Kicking off the gathering was the keynote [...]
Is Telehealth Rocket Science?
No, Telehealth is not Rocket Science. But getting clinicians to use telehealth well, is. Let me explain… As many readers of my weekly column know, there’s much more to telehealth than meets the eye. On the one hand there [...]
Telehealth Tuesday Collections
A couple of weeks ago Telehealth Tuesday celebrated its 4th birthday — over 200 articles on all things telehealth and digital health, from taxonomy to strategy, from optimization to measuring success. If you find that amount of articles overwhelming, [...]
A Telehealth Evangelist’s Roadmap – My Take
A couple of weeks ago one of the telehealth trailblazers of the last 30 years, Dr. Joseph Kvedar, reflected on the blazed trail he’s been on thus far and mused on what lies ahead. When in 2016 I revised [...]
Happy 4th Birthday, Telehealth Tuesday!
Four years ago, on Tuesday, October 8, 2019, after returning from a Telehealth Conference in Vegas, I launched Telehealth Tuesday with 32 subscribers and a simple success metric: To publish an article every week on Tuesday morning by 3:33 AM [...]
A Systems Approach to Superb Care Delivery
With a systems engineering mindset I first look at the challenges at hand in the context of the larger system - what happens before, what happens after? Who else is involved, who else is impacted? How do the various “sub [...]
Virtual Care: Your Secret Weapon to Succeed with Value-Based Care
For the longest time, physicians have been paid on a procedural basis: render a service, perform a task and get paid for it. Just like in the old horse and buggy days, from house visits that were paid with a [...]