Telehealth & Covid-19
Launching a New Video Visit Vendor
with a Proof-of-Concept
Over the past few editions we’ve covered the various stages and numerous steps of selecting a new video visit vendor. This is the fifth and final article in our series on Vendor Selection. We started [...]
Happy 5th Birthday, Telehealth Tuesday
Hey Everyone! Before I continue with our “regular programming” next week, I’d like to take a moment to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Telehealth Tuesday. 5 years ago, on Tuesday, October 8, 2019 I [...]
Effective Implementation of A New Video Visit Solution
Congratulations! You’ve successfully selected a vendor after you gathered your requirements and defined your needs. The hard part is over. Or is it? In reality, now is when the “real work” begins. Fortunately these days, [...]
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 [...]
Telehealth and the 7 Thworfs
Two years after the Covid-19 health crisis, telehealth is experiencing a renaissance in the sense that many healthcare organizations are now realizing that telehealth is not merely stop gap measure, but a viable virtual care delivery option to meet [...]
5 Reasons Why Your Clinicians (Still) Don’t Like Telehealth
Despite the fact that Covid-19 demonstrated the feasibility and value of telehealth, the majority of clinicians — especially in smaller organizations, such as health centers or rural health systems — still eschew the use of telehealth. In other parts [...]