Telehealth & Covid-19
Healthcare Center of the Future: A Framework
Community Health Centers, most commonly known by their government acronym FQHC (Federally-Qualified Health Center), are one of the key pillars of America’s healthcare safety net. Often defined by serving at least 25% of uninsured [...]
Transforming Access to Care in Rural America: An Innovative Systems Approach
Despite many social and technical advancements over the past decades, the absence of public transportation, limited access to technology and high-speed internet, low digital literacy, and multi-job & child care challenges are often preventing the [...]
Engaging a Non-Clinical Telehealth Service Partner
For a clinic, a health center, or a health system to take full advantage of “caring for patients at a distance” (a.k.a. Virtual Care, Connected Care, or Telehealth) requires reliance on a number of partners. [...]
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 [...]
Are you still using Telehealth Pilots?
Or have you already hired Proof-of-Concepts?I am relentlessly driven to optimize efficiency and effectiveness in everything I do. Having been involved in the design and implementation of technical solutions for close to 35 years, I’ve long been frustrated by the [...]
Telehealth: Alive & Kicking
Quite a few clinicians and healthcare leaders in organizations that were not engaged in telehealth prior to the Covid-19 health crisis still hold on to the notion that telehealth was simply a “best we can do” stop-gap measure during a [...]
A Telehealth Strategy Gap Analysis
Strategy is one of those business concepts that either gets you excited or leaves you irritated because it is so overused. Even the picture for this article is somewhat a comical caricature of the concept of overcoming a gap.Yet strategy, [...]
Digital Health is Not Healthcare’s Magical Pill
We modern humans often have a tendency to make things more complicated and are often hoping for miracle cures or silver bullets. Take weight loss as an example. Most people intuitively know that the key to losing and maintaining [...]
Breaking the Paradigm: Rethinking Care Delivery
Paradigms are useful tools in our modern lives. They help us to make sense of the world around us much more easily. Often, paradigms represent the tried and true — the things that worked well in the past. But more [...]