Telehealth & Covid-19
Engaging a Non-Clinical Telehealth Service Partner
For a clinic, a health center, or a health system to take full advantage of “caring for patients at a distance” (a.k.a. Virtual Care, Connected Care, or Telehealth) requires reliance on a number of partners. [...]
Outsourcing Telehealth Services: A Quick Guide
At the core of every healthcare organization lies the mission to serve its patients by providing them with the care they need. In many cases, this care is provided by clinicians employed or affiliated [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Essential Tools for Optimizing Telehealth
Optimization is commonly defined as the act of making the best use of a resource. Optimization is also a mindset to continually improve: not to pursue perfection, but to continue to reduce wasted time or resources.If we were living in [...]
Improving Maternal Care through Connected Care
The maternal health statistics pertaining maternal mortality in the US are nothing but shocking. From 1990, whereas the maternal death rate has steadily fallen by as much as 60%, the US death rate has increased by over 60% and [...]