Telehealth & Covid-19
6 Smart Moves to Optimize Telehealth
At the Telehealth T-Time Event in July 2024 I gave a talk on “The Unused Value of Telehealth” — how healthcare provider organizations are missing out on a multitude of value propositions that telehealth [...]
Essential Tools for Optimizing Telehealth
Optimization is commonly defined as the act of making the best use of a resource. Optimization is also a mindset to continually improve: not to pursue perfection, but to continue to reduce wasted time or [...]
Are You Steering Your Telehealth Success
…or are you drifting rudderless on the virtual care ocean? Clear is Kind. Unclear is Unkind — Brené Brown Accountability breeds response-ability. — Stephen Covey During the Covid-19 health crisis many organizations hastily launched telehealth. [...]
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 [...]
A Proven Recipe for Telehealth Workflows
The most critical prerequisite to the successful delivery of great care via telehealth are well-designed, well-deployed workflows. The delivery of excellent telehealth that provides a great experience for patients and clinicians alike, depends on a multitude of care team [...]
What would a Virtual Health Center look like?
Federally Qualified Health Centers hold a special status in the US healthcare system. As part of the healthcare “safety net”, FQHCs offer healthcare to anyone seeking care, regardless of their ability to pay. In return they enjoy a more [...]
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, [...]