Telehealth & Covid-19
Transforming Care Delivery through Telehealth
Most healthcare organizations jumped into telehealth in earnest during the Covid-19 health crisis — not to revolutionize care delivery, but rather to continue to serve the patient population during the highly contagious and deadly [...]
From Chaos to Supported: Growing Telehealth Maturity
In last week’s article, I posed the question: How Mature is Your Telehealth Program? In today's Telehealth Tuesday column I’ll dive deeper into the first four levels of telehealth maturity: from chaotic to emerging [...]
How Mature is Your Telehealth Program?
While Telehealth has been around since the mid 1990s, albeit mostly in academic medical centers, an overnight adoption of telehealth across virtually all specialties and with numerous modalities was brought on by the Covid-19 [...]
Taking Telebehavioral Health to the Next Level
A couple weeks back I wrote about improving mental & behavioral health at a distance. In the article I highlighted the different types of telebehavioral health and the various modalities that can be used to deliver behavioral health care “at [...]
No Telehealth? You’re fired!
As the end of the Covid-19 health crisis tunnel is in sight, more and more healthcare organizations are evaluating their current and future use of telehealth.Which is understandable, given that prior to Covid, telehealth utilization across the whole health system [...]
Improving Mental & Behavioral Health at a Distance
The use of video visits for the treatment of mental and behavioral health was one of the first applications of telehealth. But over the past decades TeleBehavioralHealth (which includes TeleMentalHealth) has evolved into a cornucopia of “care at a distance” [...]
Telehealth & Covid-19: Past, Present & Future
Over the past year, a lot has happened, is still happening and is going to happen in the Telehealth universe. At the height of the Covid-19 health crisis we’ve seen an unprecedented growth of telehealth followed by a dip [...]
Hybrid Care 2021: The Best of Both Worlds
The concept of hybrid is to combine the best of two worlds. A gasoline engine and an electric engine in hybrid cars. In-person and virtual learning in hybrid learning. Or peanut butter and jelly, ice cream with chocolate sauce [...]
Telehealth is a Clinical Tool: Use it as Such
Telehealth is everywhere. In the news. On Clubhouse. On the radio. On the frontpage of hometown newspapers. But we need to stop treating telehealth like it’s a novelty, or a distinctly new service offering. Or, even worse, as a [...]