Telehealth & Covid-19
Happy 4th Birthday, Telehealth Tuesday!
Four years ago, on Tuesday, October 8, 2019, after returning from a Telehealth Conference in Vegas, I launched Telehealth Tuesday with 32 subscribers and a simple success metric: To publish an article every week on [...]
A Systems Approach to Superb Care Delivery
With a systems engineering mindset I first look at the challenges at hand in the context of the larger system - what happens before, what happens after? Who else is involved, who else is impacted? [...]
Virtual Care: Your Secret Weapon to Succeed with Value-Based Care
For the longest time, physicians have been paid on a procedural basis: render a service, perform a task and get paid for it. Just like in the old horse and buggy days, from house visits [...]
3+ Wishes for Telehealth
by Telehealth Tuesday guest author Howard Reis. Thanks Seema Verma, then the CMS administrator, who in April 2020 declared, “the genie out of the bottle on this one”. As a 30-year telemedicine veteran, now that the genie is out [...]
What is the Purpose of a Telehealth Strategy?
After the Covid-19 health crisis catapulted telehealth into the limelight, it is now obvious to most leaders that telehealth is here to stay. As healthcare organizations are slowly leaving the “remote care” experience and the vaccination experience behind, many [...]
The Bare Necessities of a Telehealth Program
Telehealth has taken the care delivery world by storm due to the Covid-19 health crisis. An esoteric way to receive care at best before March 2020, virtually every patient has heard about telehealth if not even tried it. While [...]
Designing Smooth Telehealth Workflows
Have you ever thought about the meaning of the word “workflow”? Once you do, it’s quite obvious: the workflow defines how the work flows — literally. In this week’s Telehealth Tuesday I’ll share some of my insights on optimizing [...]
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 resources.If we were living in [...]
Improving Maternal Care through Connected Care
The maternal health statistics pertaining maternal mortality in the US are nothing but shocking. From 1990, whereas the maternal death rate has steadily fallen by as much as 60%, the US death rate has increased by over 60% and [...]