Telehealth & Covid-19
Healthcare Center of the Future: Enabling and Supportive Technologies
For Community Health Centers to chart a course for the future, last week we shared a Framework for the Health Center of the Future developed by a multidisciplinary team brought together by the Mid-Atlantic [...]
Healthcare Center of the Future: A Framework
Community Health Centers, most commonly known by their government acronym FQHC (Federally-Qualified Health Center), are one of the key pillars of America’s healthcare safety net. Often defined by serving at least 25% of uninsured [...]
Transforming Access to Care in Rural America: An Innovative Systems Approach
Despite many social and technical advancements over the past decades, the absence of public transportation, limited access to technology and high-speed internet, low digital literacy, and multi-job & child care challenges are often preventing the [...]
The Diamond of Telehealth Awareness
Exploring the multiple facets of Telehealth. This week in September 2021 is “#TelehealthAwareness” week, a promotional campaign by the industry association of telehealth technology and solution vendors. A diamond is a fascinating terrestrial and human artifact. A simple composition [...]
The Role of Telehealth in the Future of Rural Health
Over the past months our team has had many conversations with the leaders, staff and clinicians at many rural health care organizations - Critical Access Hospitals, community behavioral health services, community health centers, rural health clinics, etc. While the [...]
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 [...]