Telehealth & Covid-19
Improving Clinician Satisfaction through Telehealth
When treated as a clinical tool, correctly implemented, and properly supported, Telehealth is a valuable tool for improving the satisfaction of physicians and the entire care team. In this week’s edition of Telehealth Tuesday [...]
Making Telemedicine Enjoyable for Physicians
Are your physicians fully embracing telemedicine as an acceptable care delivery modality? Are you, as a clinician, fully comfortable with telemedicine? If not, read on. I may have a diagnosis and treatment plan that [...]
Setting the Telehealth Keystone: Clinician Engagement
In the mid 2000s I designed and built a highly energy-efficient home in Minnesota that had no furnace and was off-the-grid, off-the well. The house’s two sole sources of heat were a passive solar [...]
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 [...]
100% Telehealth is not a Dream
Over the past two years, telehealth has proven itself to be a viable approach to delivering care safely and effectively in many cases, under many circumstances. While telehealth can never replace in-person care, we can and we should get to [...]
What is your C.P.T. Code?
In the world of healthcare, a CPT® code typically refers to the (trademarked) acronym of the Current Procedural Terminology, a set of codes used to describe medical procedures received by patients. In the world of communications, a code is [...]
A Framework for Telehealth Optimization
Over the past year, telehealth has proven itself as a viable and desirable way to deliver good care at a distance. Just like any medical procedure, test or care delivery modality, though, it needs to be used judiciously, as a [...]