Telehealth & Covid-19
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 [...]
For RPM Success, Workflows are Key
With a steady increase in chronic diseases, Remote Physiological Monitoring (RPM) provides clinicians with a great, non-invasive tool to not only keep track of patients key vital signs, but also use the monitoring to [...]
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 [...]
Improving Clinician Satisfaction Through Telehealth
In the healthcare leader’s tool chest, Telehealth is a valuable tool to improve the satisfaction of clinicians and the entire care team. Here are three ways how telehealth can be leveraged to improve clinician satisfaction. Telehealth is not just [...]
The 7 Levels of Telehealth Training
The efficacious use of telehealth, as I emphasize often, is first and foremost an exercise in well executed change management. The ADKAR® model (developed and promoted by Prosci, Inc.) postulates that change is only successful and lasting when Awareness, [...]
Using Telehealth to Address the Nursing Shortage
Wicked problems are challenges that are tricky or impossible to solve due to the intertwined nature of the various factors and root causes that create the problem, most of them being difficult to even identify or correlate. Wicked Problems, [...]
Using Telehealth to Combat Clinician Burnout
Clinician burnout has long been a serious problem and the Covid-19 health crisis definitely did not help matters. But what if one of the side effects of the pandemic — the more positive views of telehealth by patients and [...]