Telehealth & Covid-19
Telehealth 2024: Divergence
The repetitive expansion and contraction is a universal pattern of life. It’s a pattern I enjoy finding (and try to accept, especially the contraction part) in my personal and professional life. Spring and Summer bring [...]
Big Business’ Telehealth Experiment On the American Patient
The notion that “Access to Care is a Human Right” is one I can very much wrap my mind around and throw my support behind. In Germany, where I was born and grew up, there [...]
Why Physicians Don’t Like Being on Camera
Over four years post-pandemic it feels almost antiquated to refer back to the Covid-19 health crisis of 2020-2022, but it was a turning point for many people and also for telehealth.Prior to Covid, telehealth did [...]
Is Your Staff Telehealth Ignorant or Oblivious?
The Titanic taught the Western world about icebergs - that about only 1/8 of it is visible above the water and that the rest, about 87% of it, is hidden from the naked eye. There’s a comparable truth about the [...]
Best of Telehealth Tuesday 2021
Thank you to the 700+ subscribers of Telehealth Tuesday for your continued interest in our articles. As we look back on this year, just as we did at the end of 2020, we wanted to highlight those articles that resonated [...]
Combating Omicron with Telehealth
A Guide for Leaders in Healthcare In the week leading up to Christmas 2021 it is now all but certain that over the holidays and well into January, the Omicron variant will once again put a strain on our [...]
The Modern Healthcare Consumer
For decades, the healthcare industry catered to a very homogenous type of customer: the patient. Especially in the past 50 years, patients found their way into the doctor’s office, waited patiently (like a good patient should) in a waiting [...]
6 Digital Health Strategy Follies
Digital Health is the use of Digital Technologies to improve the Efficiency and Efficacy of Care Decisions, Care Delivery, and Ancillary Healthcare Processes. As we find ourselves on the eve of 2022, every [...]
Telehealth 2022 — Boost or Bust?
The second quarter of 2020, starting in the middle of March, brought an almost frantic adoption of virtual video visits in the wake of the Covid-19 health crisis. Over the next weeks, though, the use of video for telehealth [...]