Telehealth & Covid-19
Gathering the Requirements To Select a New Video Visit Vendor
Selecting a new video visit vendor is something that many healthcare organizations are now looking into as they are realizing the value of telehealth as an alternative care delivery modality to the old-fashioned “in person” [...]
Video Visit Vendor Selection: Defining Needs and Requirements
As the use of telehealth to “provide care at a distance” is becoming a more and more acceptable mainstream service, some organizations are evaluating whether their solution for video visits is truly the one [...]
Increasing the ROI of RPM
Last week I wrote about the importance of workflows to ensure success with Remote Physiological Monitoring (RPM), so it is timely that this past Friday, Modern Healthcare posted an article on the same topic: How [...]
How Telehealth Adds to the Bottom Line
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance” — Confucius A Brief History of Telehealth Use For over two decades many clinicians and healthcare leaders, especially in smaller health systems, smaller clinics, or behavioral health agencies have [...]
5 Critical Metrics for Telehealth Success
Given the technical advances over the past 15 years, the modern healthcare consumer’s increasing demand for convenience, and the growing non-traditional competitive pressures, it is quite conceivable that within 5 years over 50% of all outpatient visits (primary care, [...]
Innovation in Healthcare: The Innovation Prioritization Funnel
Without the adoption of innovation virtually no business will be able to survive, and even in healthcare it will become increasingly difficult to get by with “business as usual”, just by optimizing the old systems and processes. Yet once [...]
Innovation in Healthcare: Accelerating Innovation Adoption
“The Problem in Healthcare is not the Lack of Innovation. The Problem is the Lack of Innovation Adoption.” — Christian Milaster Innovation, especially in healthcare, seems to be the “name of the game” these days. Everybody in healthcare is [...]
Telehealth in Libraries: Read a Book, See a Doc
For quite some time, public libraries in the US have been considered one of the last public spaces where virtually anyone can gather in a safe environment. In urban as well as rural areas, “libraries don’t just provide free [...]
7 Considerations When Launching School-based Telehealth
The ability for a student to be seen by a provider not physically located at the school has been around for at least 20 years. Even before the pandemic, the use of telehealth in School-Based Health Centers (SBHC) grew almost [...]