Telehealth & Covid-19
Selecting a Telehealth Services Vendor
Over the past 30 years, telehealth has evolved into a broad technology niche in its own right. At first there were telehealth hardware solutions - video cameras and video monitors, using proprietary video communication [...]
Happy Day Scenario Process Design
Most if not all of Healthcare Delivery is a series of interconnected processes. From diagnosis to treatment, from prescriptions to incisions, from dressings to blessings — every part of the care experience is process driven.As [...]
Five Principles of Successful Telehealth Adoption
Many leaders see the wisdom in embracing “care at a distance” for their organization. Yet once they look at their clinician’s utilization data, they are often surprised about the discrepancy of the media’s description [...]
Using Telehealth to Overcome SDoH
Over the past decade healthcare researchers have recognized that a person’s health status is greatly affected by the physical environment and social conditions they find themselves in. Many of these factors are the result of a person’s lifestyle choices, educational [...]
Six Common Misconceptions about Telehealth
Over the 10 years that I’ve been working with health systems on telehealth strategy, service design and implementation I’ve come across a number of misconceptions that people hold about telehealth. With telehealth now taking hold as a valid alternative [...]
Telemedicine – It takes a Village
In 2019 the American Telemedicine Association declared as the tag line for their annual conference a concept that’s been long in the minds of those having been involved in telehealth for the past 20, 30 years: that “Telehealth = [...]
Telehealth: The Swiss Army Knife of Healthcare
Most Healthcare Organizations’ Strategic Plans follow pretty much the same blueprint, covering the same five or six “pillars”, including quality, service, people, finance, growth and community.As Healthcare Organizations’ maturity regarding the use of digital health and telehealth technologies improves, healthcare [...]
3+ Wishes for Telehealth
by Telehealth Tuesday guest author Howard Reis. Thanks Seema Verma, then the CMS administrator, who in April 2020 declared, “the genie out of the bottle on this one”. As a 30-year telemedicine veteran, now that the genie is out [...]
What is the Purpose of a Telehealth Strategy?
After the Covid-19 health crisis catapulted telehealth into the limelight, it is now obvious to most leaders that telehealth is here to stay. As healthcare organizations are slowly leaving the “remote care” experience and the vaccination experience behind, many [...]