Telehealth & Covid-19
Healthcare’s Convoluted Business Model That Stifles Innovation Adoption
In essence, a business model is a plan for how to make a profit. But business plans are not just limited to startup ventures, digital health vendors, or healthcare delivery organizations. Business models apply [...]
A Waste of Telehealth: Are You Leaving Patients Behind and Money on the Table?
Telehealth, when deployed properly, offers tremendous benefits to patients and great financial value to clinics. Yet most healthcare CEOs and especially CMOs seemingly are oblivious to telehealth’s potential as an antidote to many of [...]
Telehealth in Libraries: Read a Book, See a Doc
During this spring’s telehealth conference season (held by MATRC, NRTRC, gpTRAC, and ATA) I have heard about multiple initiatives to bring access to care through booths and Telehealth Access Points in libraries. In addition [...]
Reflections on (and from) the ATA 2022
Prior to 2020, the annual event of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) was the flagship gathering, the national telehealth conference to see and be seen. With the Covid-19 health crisis putting telehealth on the mind of every healthcare leader, [...]
A Pragmatic Definition of Digital Health
Now that we’re almost past the Covid-19 health crisis, attention is expanding from telehealth, telemedicine, and virtual care to the larger scope of digital health. In a recent survey, over 75% of the hospital executives indicated that they are [...]
MATRC 2022 Conference Report
I am writing these lines to you from the Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center (MATRC) Summit in Charlotte, NC. Instead of my usual article I’d like to share this week some impressions and observations from the world of telehealth that [...]
Leading Digital Transformation
For about 15 years now, HRSA has provided 3-year grants to about a dozen organizations around the nation to serve as regional Telehealth Resource Centers, to assist healthcare organizations in their journey to integrate telehealth into their care delivery [...]
So, Doctor, You Want to Launch a Startup?
I love working with physicians and advocating on their behalf so they can practice “on top of their license”, doing only the things that only they can do. Many are content and fulfilled from serving patients day in and out, [...]
CEO Handbook of Telehealth Success Part 1
In the spring of 2020, out of necessity to continue to provide access to care, the Covid-19 health crisis put telehealth into the spotlight, forcing every clinic to figure out how to put this novel care delivery tool to best [...]















