Telehealth & Covid-19
Transforming Care Delivery through Telehealth
Most healthcare organizations jumped into telehealth in earnest during the Covid-19 health crisis — not to revolutionize care delivery, but rather to continue to serve the patient population during the highly contagious and deadly [...]
From Chaos to Supported: Growing Telehealth Maturity
In last week’s article, I posed the question: How Mature is Your Telehealth Program? In today's Telehealth Tuesday column I’ll dive deeper into the first four levels of telehealth maturity: from chaotic to emerging [...]
How Mature is Your Telehealth Program?
While Telehealth has been around since the mid 1990s, albeit mostly in academic medical centers, an overnight adoption of telehealth across virtually all specialties and with numerous modalities was brought on by the Covid-19 [...]
Telehealth 2022 — Boost or Bust?
The second quarter of 2020, starting in the middle of March, brought an almost frantic adoption of virtual video visits in the wake of the Covid-19 health crisis. Over the next weeks, though, the use of video for telehealth [...]
100% Telehealth is not a Dream
Over the past two years, telehealth has proven itself to be a viable approach to delivering care safely and effectively in many cases, under many circumstances. While telehealth can never replace in-person care, we can and we should get to [...]
What is your C.P.T. Code?
In the world of healthcare, a CPT® code typically refers to the (trademarked) acronym of the Current Procedural Terminology, a set of codes used to describe medical procedures received by patients. In the world of communications, a code is [...]
A Framework for Telehealth Optimization
Over the past year, telehealth has proven itself as a viable and desirable way to deliver good care at a distance. Just like any medical procedure, test or care delivery modality, though, it needs to be used judiciously, as a [...]
Telehealth TechChecks – Rocket Fuel for Telehealth Success
If your telehealth services are not successful, if your telehealth program is not taking off, you may be missing a key ingredient: Telehealth PreVisit TechChecks. Direct-to-Consumer Telehealth BC (Before Covid) Before Covid-19, trying to launch a “direct-to-consumer”, “bring-your-own-device” telehealth [...]
5 Reasons Why Telehealth is a Must for Rural Health Care
The Covid-19 health crisis showed everyone in healthcare that telehealth can be a viable alternative to in-person care. Especially patients, for the most part, enjoyed the convenience that telehealth has to offer and would prefer not to go back [...]