Telehealth & Covid-19
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 [...]
The 5 Leader-Ships of Innovation Adoption
“The Future is already here; it is just not evenly distributed.” — William Gibson Today’s Healthcare Leaders have a full plate of important and urgent priorities and many if not all of them require some [...]
Telehealth: What’s in Store for 2024
The end of a year and beginning of a new year are popular times to make predictions about the future. So with Telehealth Tuesday’s edition #222, here are my three predictions for 2024: A. [...]
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 [...]
The Bare Necessities of a Telehealth Program
Telehealth has taken the care delivery world by storm due to the Covid-19 health crisis. An esoteric way to receive care at best before March 2020, virtually every patient has heard about telehealth if not even tried it. While [...]
Designing Smooth Telehealth Workflows
Have you ever thought about the meaning of the word “workflow”? Once you do, it’s quite obvious: the workflow defines how the work flows — literally. In this week’s Telehealth Tuesday I’ll share some of my insights on optimizing [...]