Telehealth & Covid-19
A Glimpse of the Future of Care Delivery via Telehealth
The ultimate nirvana of human physical wellbeing would be the absence of disease and injury. But even in a world where all diseases are successfully prevented, someone (or something), presumably, still needs to administer [...]
Blueprint for Sustainable Virtual Care:
3 Tactics to Drive Long-Term Success
Virtual care is no longer a luxury — it’s the foundation of modern healthcare delivery. Recent surveys reveal that at least 2 out of 3 patients now expect their healthcare providers to offer digital options [...]
Are Rural Hospitals Better Off Because of Telehealth?
For the past few months, I’ve been writing quite a bit about the use of telehealth to fix rural healthcare. A few weeks ago, someone in my extended network posed a great question on LinkedIn: [...]
What does an AI think about Telehealth?
Many Telehealth Tuesday readers have in recent months pointed me towards ChatGPT (launched in November 2022) and invited me to assess its relationship with or value for modern medicine. While this definitely is a great research [...]
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 [...]