Telehealth & Covid-19
Improving Clinician Satisfaction through Telehealth
When treated as a clinical tool, correctly implemented, and properly supported, Telehealth is a valuable tool for improving the satisfaction of physicians and the entire care team. In this week’s edition of Telehealth Tuesday [...]
Making Telemedicine Enjoyable for Physicians
Are your physicians fully embracing telemedicine as an acceptable care delivery modality? Are you, as a clinician, fully comfortable with telemedicine? If not, read on. I may have a diagnosis and treatment plan that [...]
Setting the Telehealth Keystone: Clinician Engagement
In the mid 2000s I designed and built a highly energy-efficient home in Minnesota that had no furnace and was off-the-grid, off-the well. The house’s two sole sources of heat were a passive solar [...]
Telehealth TechChecks – Rocket Fuel for Telehealth Success
If your telehealth services are not successful, if your telehealth program is not taking off, you may be missing a key ingredient: Telehealth PreVisit TechChecks. Direct-to-Consumer Telehealth BC (Before Covid) Before Covid-19, trying to launch a “direct-to-consumer”, “bring-your-own-device” telehealth [...]
5 Reasons Why Telehealth is a Must for Rural Health Care
The Covid-19 health crisis showed everyone in healthcare that telehealth can be a viable alternative to in-person care. Especially patients, for the most part, enjoyed the convenience that telehealth has to offer and would prefer not to go back [...]
Addressing Patients’ Top 3 Telehealth Pain Points
According to a survey published by J.D. Power, the three top complaints by patients about telehealth include: limited services lack of awareness of costs confusing technology requirements In this week’s column of Telehealth Tuesday I’m presenting three solutions to address [...]
Enabling Virtual Care: Forms, Appointments, and More
In recent months healthcare leaders’ perception of telehealth has shifted. It seems that the realization finally hit that this form of care delivery is definitely “here to stay” and that a healthcare organization ought to do something about it, if [...]
9 Ways to Deliver Extraordinary Care Virtually
What is Extraordinary Care?Extraordinary Care is delighted clinicians, staff, and patients working together to restore and maintain the patients’ well being, delivered at the lowest cost in a timely manner.Contrast that with ordinary care:Ordinary care is ineffective, repetitive, duplicative, transactional, [...]
Best Practices are not the Solution for Telehealth Success
All Great Truths begin as Blasphemies.~George Bernard Shaw Blasphemous Telehealth Secrets, Part 2I get it. In these busy, stressful, rapidly-changing times, people are constantly looking for quick fixes, proven solutions, even silver bullets. Especially in healthcare the desire to “just share [...]