Telehealth & Covid-19
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 [...]
Happy 5th Birthday, Telehealth Tuesday
Hey Everyone! Before I continue with our “regular programming” next week, I’d like to take a moment to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Telehealth Tuesday. 5 years ago, on Tuesday, October 8, 2019 I [...]
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 [...]
Increasing the Value of Telehealth
The beginning of a New Year is always a good time for prophecies and predictions. This is especially valuable if they are rooted in reality, based on actual data. The healthcare advisory firm Sage Growth Partners published such a [...]
12 Gifts for Your Telehealth Program
The Covid-19 health crisis of 2020 showed many patients (a.k.a., modern healthcare consumers) and many clinicians how much care can be delivered at a distance (a.k.a. telehealth). While telehealth served as a readily available stop-gap-measure in 2020, many forward [...]
Managing Telehealth Performance with 4DX
In many healthcare organizations, telehealth is but one of many things its leadership team should pay attention to. But with nursing staffing shortages, physician burnout, and decreasing funding streams, telehealth — “this thing we had to do during Covid” [...]
Telehealth Training for Clinicians
Telehealth is first and foremost a clinical tool and to be successful and sustainable, telehealth optimization must focus on creating a stellar clinician experience. If you want grow and expand your clinicians use of telehealth (when clinically appropriate) and [...]