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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]