Telehealth & Covid-19
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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Increasing Provider Capacity through Virtual Care
Author’s note: Today’s article marks the 200th edition of Telehealth Tuesday. Launched well before Covid in 2018, Telehealth Tuesday has helped me to capture the many lessons we’ve learned in helping organizations to launch, optimize, or grow their telehealth services [...]
Telehealth Creates Strategic Success
Over the past week’s I’ve been writing a lot about the what, the how, and the why of measuring the performance of your telehealth services. Today’s column presents another argument as to why measuring telehealth performance is important: because telehealth [...]
Why Measure Virtual Care Performance?
You can’t manage what you don’t measure. — Peter Drucker Over the past weeks I’ve shared a lot of pragmatic advice on how to measure telehealth performance to assess the success of your telehealth programs. But underlying that guidance is [...]
Measuring the 5 Most Critical Telehealth Metrics
In last week’s article I laid out a simple framework of five key metrics that telehealth leaders need to pay attention to when it comes to measuring telehealth success. They are: clinician satisfaction patient satisfaction technical performance visit volume [...]