Telehealth & Covid-19
Telehealth 2024: Divergence
The repetitive expansion and contraction is a universal pattern of life. It’s a pattern I enjoy finding (and try to accept, especially the contraction part) in my personal and professional life. Spring and Summer bring [...]
Big Business’ Telehealth Experiment On the American Patient
The notion that “Access to Care is a Human Right” is one I can very much wrap my mind around and throw my support behind. In Germany, where I was born and grew up, there [...]
Why Physicians Don’t Like Being on Camera
Over four years post-pandemic it feels almost antiquated to refer back to the Covid-19 health crisis of 2020-2022, but it was a turning point for many people and also for telehealth.Prior to Covid, telehealth did [...]
Why Physicians Don’t Like Being on Camera
All Great Truths begin as Blasphemies.~George Bernard ShawBlasphemous Telehealth Secrets, Part 1While the adoption of telehealth did skyrocket during the first months of the Covid-19 health crisis (as high as 90% in some health systems), most of it quickly reverted [...]
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 [...]