Telehealth & Covid-19
Setting the Telehealth Keystone: Clinician Engagement
In the mid 2000s I designed and built a highly energy-efficient home in Minnesota that had no furnace and was off-the-grid, off-the well. The house’s two sole sources of heat were a passive solar [...]
The Virtual Care Bill of Patients’ Rights
When I first entered healthcare in the year 2000, I did so in the hallowed halls of the Mayo Clinic, where the spirits of the Mayo brothers, Will and Charlie, and their father, William Worrall, [...]
Tech-Enabled Care Model for the Community Health Center of the Future
While Community Health Centers have long used technology, mostly for managing operations and the revenue cycle, many CHCs are only just now beginning to employ more “modern” technologies such as data analytics and, mostly fueled [...]
The (Open) Wide World of TeleDentistry
When I think of dentistry I have images of big syringes with mouth-numbing (and mind-numbing) tinctures inside. I hear noises of drills and feel the anticipation of pain that surely will come soon. In summary, my view of dentistry [...]
Extraordinary Telehealth’s Hierarchy of Needs
Many of us, mostly in college, have come across the concept of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. To reach the highest level, that of self-actualization, people first need to have some of their basic (physiological) needs met, such as breathing, [...]
How Much Telehealth Is Just Right?
During the height of the Covid-19 health crisis in the spring of 2020, the use of telehealth to deliver care skyrocketed into Himalayan altitudes. In 2020, Medicare fee-for-service telehealth use increased 63-fold from 840,000 to 52.7 million. Especially those [...]
3 Telehealth Dos and Don’ts for CEOs
As many organizations are emerging from the latest wave of Covid (this time in the form of Omicron), healthcare leaders must focus their attention on how to best position their organization to succeed in the near future. One critical [...]
Surprise Telehealth Facility Fees
Imagine it is Valentine’s day and instead of heading to town to your favorite upscale Italian restaurant you decide to stay in and create a super-romantic evening with a food delivery order of your favorite antipasti, primi piatti and [...]
The Efficacy of Surgical Planning via Telehealth
Telehealth, in its essence, is the ability to deliver healthcare at a distance. It is the concept of providing an equivalent or even better level of care regardless of the patient’s physical location. In the early days of medicine, [...]