Telehealth & Covid-19
Aligning Clinician and Patient Telehealth Expectations
Telehealth has experienced a meteoric rise in adoption over the past few years, driven largely by necessity during the pandemic. Patients, having experienced the convenience of virtual care, have increasingly expressed a preference for telehealth [...]
Bridging Healthcare Gaps: Telemedicine in Modern Hospitals
In the face of mounting challenges, telemedicine has emerged as a transformative force in healthcare, particularly for rural hospitals. During a recent Telehealth T-Time talk titled "Bridging Healthcare Gaps: The Role of Telemedicine in Modern [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
3 Tactics for Sustainable Virtual Care
By now it's obvious to everyone that virtual care is here to stay. It offers demonstrable benefits in terms of convenient access to care leading to increased continuity of care which can result in improved outcomes and lower cost [...]