Telehealth & Covid-19
Success with Telebehavioral Health:
5 Tactics to Keeping Students Engaged
Delivering behavioral health services to teenagers has never been simple — but it’s especially complex when the connection is virtual and the setting is a school or the home. Unlike traditional therapy spaces that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
8 Reasons Why Clinicians are Apprehensive About Telehealth
…and what to do about it. When your organization finally embraces telehealth, recognizing it as a critical strategic tool to give your “modern healthcare consumers” (a.k.a. patients) what they want (i.e., convenience) you're still left with a problem. How do [...]
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 [...]