Telehealth & Covid-19
Is Telehealth a Clinic Killer?
Since the beginning of the year — after Chris Adamec’s great talk at the January 2025 Telehealth T-Time — I’ve been debunking common myths that politicians and other healthcare non-experts may hold. I questioned whether [...]
The Virtual Physical Exam:
Bringing Clinical Excellence to Telehealth
While telehealth in an integrated, hybrid care environment enjoys a high percentage of utilization in behavioral health and specialty care, most primary care providers are still, for the most part, eschewing the use of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
100% Telehealth is not a Dream
Over the past years, telehealth has proven itself to be a viable approach to delivering care safely and effectively in many cases, under many circumstances. While telehealth will never replace 100% of in-person care, we can and we should [...]
The 3 Most Effective Telehealth Marketing Tactics
Marketing Your Telehealth Services to Your CommunityGood marketing is about understanding customers’ needs and offering solutions and services to satisfy their needs in a way that resonates with them.In essence, though Marketing is first and foremost a strategy. Marketing itself [...]
Guiding Clinicians to Use Telehealth Well
In last week’s Telehealth Tuesday article I posed the question:Is Telehealth Rocket Science? The answer?No, Telehealth is not Rocket Science. But getting clinicians to use telehealth well, is.To get clinicians to embrace telehealth, clinicians need Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Skill, and [...]
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 [...]