Telehealth & Covid-19
Improving Clinician Satisfaction through Telehealth
When treated as a clinical tool, correctly implemented, and properly supported, Telehealth is a valuable tool for improving the satisfaction of physicians and the entire care team. In this week’s edition of Telehealth Tuesday [...]
Making Telemedicine Enjoyable for Physicians
Are your physicians fully embracing telemedicine as an acceptable care delivery modality? Are you, as a clinician, fully comfortable with telemedicine? If not, read on. I may have a diagnosis and treatment plan that [...]
Setting the Telehealth Keystone: Clinician Engagement
In the mid 2000s I designed and built a highly energy-efficient home in Minnesota that had no furnace and was off-the-grid, off-the well. The house’s two sole sources of heat were a passive solar [...]
Breaking the Paradigm: Rethinking Care Delivery
Paradigms are useful tools in our modern lives. They help us to make sense of the world around us much more easily. Often, paradigms represent the tried and true — the things that worked well in the past. But more [...]
Telehealth Power Tools for Population Health
Many in healthcare still see telehealth primarily as a technology. That is not surprising, since the name “telehealth” invokes a first association with other technologies that have advanced human kind in the last 50 to a 100 years: the [...]
Bad Telehealth — Are You Just Seeing the Tip of the Iceberg?
Over the past two years I have talked about telehealth with leaders at over 30 community health centers, rural health clinics, behavioral health clinics, and health systems. Based on our conversation, most of them are pretty much in the [...]
A Proven Recipe for Telehealth Workflows
The most critical prerequisite to the successful delivery of great care via telehealth are well-designed, well-deployed workflows. The delivery of excellent telehealth that provides a great experience for patients and clinicians alike, depends on a multitude of care team [...]
What would a Virtual Health Center look like?
Federally Qualified Health Centers hold a special status in the US healthcare system. As part of the healthcare “safety net”, FQHCs offer healthcare to anyone seeking care, regardless of their ability to pay. In return they enjoy a more [...]
Reflections on (and from) the ATA 2022
Prior to 2020, the annual event of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) was the flagship gathering, the national telehealth conference to see and be seen. With the Covid-19 health crisis putting telehealth on the mind of every healthcare leader, [...]