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 [...]
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 [...]