Telehealth & Covid-19
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 [...]
7 Considerations When Launching School-based Telehealth
The ability for students to be seen by a provider not physically located at the school has been around for at least 20 years. Even before the Covid pandemic, the use of telehealth in School-Based [...]
6 Smart Moves to Optimize Telehealth
At the Telehealth T-Time Event in July 2024 I gave a talk on “The Unused Value of Telehealth” — how healthcare provider organizations are missing out on a multitude of value propositions that telehealth [...]
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 [...]
The Evolution of Patient Participation
Language is very powerful and certain words can convey a number of different meanings depending on the context and the situation. Words can hurt (as in “calling names”) or they can heal (as in “words of affirmation”). Words are [...]
3 Reasons Why Your Clinic Should Accelerate Telehealth Adoption
By now every clinic, health center, hospital or behavioral health agency has at a minimum dipped their toe into telehealth and plenty of clinical services (most prominently behavioral health) are using telehealth fairly frequently. But is Telehealth something your [...]