Telehealth & Covid-19
Is Telehealth Rocket Science?
No, Telehealth is not Rocket Science. But getting clinicians to use telehealth well, is. Let me explain… As many readers of my weekly column know, there’s much more to telehealth than meets the eye. [...]
Telehealth Tuesday Collections
A couple of weeks ago Telehealth Tuesday celebrated its 4th birthday — over 200 articles on all things telehealth and digital health, from taxonomy to strategy, from optimization to measuring success. If you find [...]
A Telehealth Evangelist’s Roadmap – My Take
A couple of weeks ago one of the telehealth trailblazers of the last 30 years, Dr. Joseph Kvedar, reflected on the blazed trail he’s been on thus far and mused on what lies ahead. [...]
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 [...]
EHR Telehealth: A CTO’s dream & the nightmare of MDs & patients
“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.” — Ben Franklin Selecting your EHR/EMR’s embedded telehealth offering seems to be a straightforward decision: all clinicians already have access to the software and [...]
Improving the Performance of Telebehavioral Health
Over the last few weeks, Telehealth Tuesday has covered the various facets of Telebehavioral Health and how to take your Telebehavioral Health service to the next level. In this week’s column we’re applying the concept of measuring telehealth success to [...]
Taking Telebehavioral Health to the Next Level
A couple weeks back I wrote about improving mental & behavioral health at a distance. In the article I highlighted the different types of telebehavioral health and the various modalities that can be used to deliver behavioral health care “at [...]