Telehealth & Covid-19
Rural Telehealth: Beyond Video Visits
One of the biggest challenges facing rural America is access to care and the barriers to accessing care are manifold, including transportation, time, and technology. Obviously one solution is to access care through a [...]
Barriers to Accessing Care in Rural America
The primary reason for the challenges in accessing care in rural areas is the growing shortage of clinicians practicing in rural areas. According to one statistic, only 1 in 10 primary care physicians serving [...]
Launching a New Video Visit Vendor
with a Proof-of-Concept
Over the past few editions we’ve covered the various stages and numerous steps of selecting a new video visit vendor. This is the fifth and final article in our series on Vendor Selection. We started [...]
Innovation in Healthcare:
Clinician Engagement for Digital Health Adoption
The problem in Healthcare is not the lack of innovation. It is the slow pace of innovation adoption. I don’t think I can repeat this phrase often enough. Given the fast pace of digital health [...]
Innovation in Healthcare:
Successful Innovation Implementation
In the world of digital health innovation, it is not sufficient to just have a great solution that works. It is equally important to ensure that the solution is actually used and that it is used as intended, so [...]
Innovation in Healthcare:
Implementing Digital Health Solutions
The avalanche of digital health innovation caused by an investment of $100B dollars over the past decade ($60B just in 2020-2022) may be slowing down due to a slowdown in investments caused by the global financial situation, but there [...]
When Fee-for-Service is Dead: Telehealth, the Clinical Savior
Quick, what do you think are the biggest obstacles to a more widespread adoption of telehealth by clinicians? Here are a few common wisdom favorites: Technology 1: Clinicians don’t want technology to stand in the way of connecting with [...]
Innovation in Healthcare: From Idea to Validation
In a January 2023 article describing their take on 5 predictions for telehealth in 2023, the American Medical Association (AMA) promoted its recently published report: “Closing the Digital Health Disconnect: A Blueprint for Optimizing Digitally Enabled Care”. The report’s [...]
Best of Telehealth Tuesday 2022
Telehealth Tuesday was born in October 2019 out of the desire to share best practices and make the case for telehealth. In addition to our emailed newsletter (which each week includes a short personal editorial) Telehealth Tuesday is now also [...]