Telehealth & Covid-19
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 [...]
8 Reasons Why Clinicians are Apprehensive About Telehealth
…and what to do about it. When your organization finally embraces telehealth, recognizing it as a critical strategic tool to give your “modern healthcare consumers” (a.k.a. patients) what they want (i.e., convenience) you're still left [...]
Serving More Patients Through Virtual Care
While virtual care is becoming increasingly more ubiquitous — holding steady in primary care and continuing to grow in behavioral health — it is still often seen as merely an alternative care delivery method. [...]
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 [...]
No Telehealth? You’re fired!
As the end of the Covid-19 health crisis tunnel is in sight, more and more healthcare organizations are evaluating their current and future use of telehealth.Which is understandable, given that prior to Covid, telehealth utilization across the whole health system [...]
Improving Mental & Behavioral Health at a Distance
The use of video visits for the treatment of mental and behavioral health was one of the first applications of telehealth. But over the past decades TeleBehavioralHealth (which includes TeleMentalHealth) has evolved into a cornucopia of “care at a distance” [...]
Telehealth & Covid-19: Past, Present & Future
Over the past year, a lot has happened, is still happening and is going to happen in the Telehealth universe. At the height of the Covid-19 health crisis we’ve seen an unprecedented growth of telehealth followed by a dip [...]
Hybrid Care 2021: The Best of Both Worlds
The concept of hybrid is to combine the best of two worlds. A gasoline engine and an electric engine in hybrid cars. In-person and virtual learning in hybrid learning. Or peanut butter and jelly, ice cream with chocolate sauce [...]
Telehealth is a Clinical Tool: Use it as Such
Telehealth is everywhere. In the news. On Clubhouse. On the radio. On the frontpage of hometown newspapers. But we need to stop treating telehealth like it’s a novelty, or a distinctly new service offering. Or, even worse, as a [...]