Telehealth & Covid-19
3 Tactics for Sustainable Virtual Care
By now it's obvious to everyone that virtual care is here to stay. It offers demonstrable benefits in terms of convenient access to care leading to increased continuity of care which can result in [...]
Increasing Provider Capacity through Virtual Care
Author’s note: Today’s article marks the 200th edition of Telehealth Tuesday. Launched well before Covid in 2018, Telehealth Tuesday has helped me to capture the many lessons we’ve learned in helping organizations to launch, optimize, [...]
Telehealth Creates Strategic Success
Over the past week’s I’ve been writing a lot about the what, the how, and the why of measuring the performance of your telehealth services. Today’s column presents another argument as to why measuring telehealth [...]
Telehealth is Not in Kansas Anymore
Last week I had the great honor of accepting a request to facilitate an international panel of fascinating telehealth innovation experts for the Festival of Telehealth on the topic of “Future Innovation in Telehealth”. As I was exchanging emails [...]
6 Smart Moves to Optimize Telehealth
Over the past 10 months I’ve written extensively about the shortcomings of poorly implemented telehealth: “The Top 4 Side Effects of poorly implemented telehealth”, “6 Ways Telehealth Failed in 2020”, and “3 Characteristics and 3 Root Causes of Mediocre [...]
Which Telehealth Technology is Best?
As healthcare organizations are assessing how to best leverage telehealth for the delivery of care in the long run, the question turns quickly to assessing the various technology solutions that an organization may find itself using. From simple video [...]
Thoughts on Foley & Lardner’s
Top 5 Telehealth Law Predictions for 2021
In December I surmised that, indeed, telehealth reimbursement is here to stay - simply because it was already pretty good before the Covid-19 health crisis emergency regulations. Granted, the biggest hurdle that was removed — allowing Medicare patients to receive [...]
3 Characteristics & 3 Root Causes of Mediocre Telehealth
The Covid-19 health crisis quickly turned everyone’s attention to telehealth as a means to keep providers and staff safe and patients both safe and healthy. Most organizations very quickly stood up telemedicine without the knowledge on how to properly [...]
Is Audio-Only Telehealth Good Medicine?
Last week a telehealth workgroup comprising insurers, providers, and policy makers from the state of Vermont submitted a recommendation to their state, arguing for keeping the reimbursement for audio-only (telephonic) telehealth. But is audio-only telehealth good medicine? Should there be [...]