Telehealth & Covid-19
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]