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: [...]
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 [...]
Best of Telehealth Tuesday 2022
Telehealth Tuesday was born in October 2019 out of the desire to share best practices and make the case for telehealth. In addition to our emailed newsletter (which each week includes a short personal editorial) Telehealth Tuesday is now also [...]
Increasing the Value of Telehealth
The beginning of a New Year is always a good time for prophecies and predictions. This is especially valuable if they are rooted in reality, based on actual data. The healthcare advisory firm Sage Growth Partners published such a [...]
12 Gifts for Your Telehealth Program
The Covid-19 health crisis of 2020 showed many patients (a.k.a., modern healthcare consumers) and many clinicians how much care can be delivered at a distance (a.k.a. telehealth). While telehealth served as a readily available stop-gap-measure in 2020, many forward [...]