Telehealth & Covid-19
From Chaos to Supported: Growing Telehealth Maturity
In last week’s article, I posed the question: How Mature is Your Telehealth Program? In today's Telehealth Tuesday column I’ll dive deeper into the first four levels of telehealth maturity: from chaotic to emerging [...]
How Mature is Your Telehealth Program?
While Telehealth has been around since the mid 1990s, albeit mostly in academic medical centers, an overnight adoption of telehealth across virtually all specialties and with numerous modalities was brought on by the Covid-19 [...]
Extraordinary Telehealth’s Hierarchy of Needs
Many of us, mostly in college, have come across the framework of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. To reach the highest level, the level of self-actualization, people first need to have some of their basic [...]
The Diamond of Telehealth Awareness
Exploring the multiple facets of Telehealth. This week in September 2021 is “#TelehealthAwareness” week, a promotional campaign by the industry association of telehealth technology and solution vendors. A diamond is a fascinating terrestrial and human artifact. A simple composition [...]
The Role of Telehealth in the Future of Rural Health
Over the past months our team has had many conversations with the leaders, staff and clinicians at many rural health care organizations - Critical Access Hospitals, community behavioral health services, community health centers, rural health clinics, etc. While the [...]
Using Telehealth to Overcome SDoH
Over the past decade healthcare researchers have recognized that a person’s health status is greatly affected by the physical environment and social conditions they find themselves in. Many of these factors are the result of a person’s lifestyle choices, educational [...]
Six Common Misconceptions about Telehealth
Over the 10 years that I’ve been working with health systems on telehealth strategy, service design and implementation I’ve come across a number of misconceptions that people hold about telehealth. With telehealth now taking hold as a valid alternative [...]
Telemedicine – It takes a Village
In 2019 the American Telemedicine Association declared as the tag line for their annual conference a concept that’s been long in the minds of those having been involved in telehealth for the past 20, 30 years: that “Telehealth = [...]
Telehealth: The Swiss Army Knife of Healthcare
Most Healthcare Organizations’ Strategic Plans follow pretty much the same blueprint, covering the same five or six “pillars”, including quality, service, people, finance, growth and community.As Healthcare Organizations’ maturity regarding the use of digital health and telehealth technologies improves, healthcare [...]