Telehealth & Covid-19
Telehealth Creates Strategic Success
Over the past week’s I’ve been writing a lot about the what, the how, and the why of measuring the performance of your telehealth services. Today’s column presents another argument as to why measuring telehealth [...]
Why Measure Virtual Care Performance?
You can’t manage what you don’t measure. — Peter Drucker Over the past weeks I’ve shared a lot of pragmatic advice on how to measure telehealth performance to assess the success of your telehealth programs. [...]
Measuring the 5 Most Critical Telehealth Metrics
In last week’s article I laid out a simple framework of five key metrics that telehealth leaders need to pay attention to when it comes to measuring telehealth success. They are: clinician satisfaction patient [...]
Yes, Virginia, there is Telehealth Reimbursement
This phrase, if it does not ring an immediate “bell”, is a nod to the famous reply in the New York Sun from 1897. In response to a question from an inquisitive 8-year-old regarding the existence of Santa Claus, the [...]
6 Ways Telehealth Failed in 2020
On many accounts, 2020 was the year of telehealth. In response to the Covid-19 health crisis, a quick solution was needed to safely provide care for patients, especially those that did not need “hands-on” care, but standard medical care. [...]
From Chaos to Supported: Growing Telehealth Maturity
In last week’s Telehealth Tuesday article I covered the 7 Levels of Telehealth Maturity which ranged from “chaotic” to “transformative”. In today’s article I’ll be diving deeper into the first four levels of telehealth maturity: from chaotic to emerging [...]
The 7 Levels of Telehealth Maturity
Telehealth has been launched at virtually every healthcare organization in the wake of the Covid-19 health crisis. While some initially treated it as a convenient backup solution, most have by now realized that telehealth is here to stay. But [...]
The Telehealth Landscape is About to Change
These days, there are surely some interesting dynamics at play. And no, I’m not talking about the post-election dynamics or the holidays during a full-blown health crisis. I am talking about the forces at play at this very moment, [...]
Telehealth Success is not about Clinical Outcomes
I’d be the first to tell you that anything we do in healthcare has to focus on achieving positive clinical outcomes. And, just like any other care delivery modality, that includes telehealth. But Telehealth Success is not about Clinical [...]