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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]















