Telehealth & Covid-19
Making Telemedicine Enjoyable for Physicians
Are your physicians fully embracing telemedicine as an acceptable care delivery modality? Are you, as a clinician, fully comfortable with telemedicine? If not, read on. I may have a diagnosis and treatment plan that [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
Telehealth: A Magic Wand for CEOs
Even before the onset of the Covid-19 health crisis, healthcare leaders did not have it easy — physician burnout and physician suicide, exploding cost, a seemingly free-for-all growth of all kinds of of fee-for-service and value-based payment models, plus [...]
Collecting Telehealth Copays
For decades, our traditional healthcare system has relied on patients coming into the physician office to receive their care. Many of the workflows we know today were designed about that basic paradigm: The assumption that in order to receive [...]
Telehealth Optimization for Rural FQHC
Launched Telehealth in the wake of the Covid-19 health crisis. Named a Telehealth Coordinator with no telehealth background. Now looking to increase utilization, increase patient and physician satisfaction, improve billing, etc.
The 3 Most Effective Telehealth Marketing Tactics
Marketing Your Telehealth Services to Your Community Marketing is first and foremost a strategy. Marketing itself is not advertising and cold-calling, glossy brochures and sweepstakes, although all of those could be good (or bad) marketing tactics that are part [...]
Is Your Staff Telehealth Ignorant or Oblivious?
The Titanic taught the Western world about icebergs - that about only 1/8 of it is visible above the water and that the rest, about 87% of it, is hidden from the naked eye. There’s a comparable truth about the [...]














