Telehealth & Covid-19
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 [...]
The Problem in Healthcare Is Not the Lack of Innovation
The problem in healthcare is not the lack of innovation. The problem in healthcare is the ineptitude of healthcare leaders and digital health vendors to create a meaningful, sustainable adoption of innovative services and [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]















