Telehealth & Covid-19
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 [...]
Extraordinary Telehealth’s Hierarchy of Needs
Many of us, mostly in college, have come across the framework of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. To reach the highest level, the level of self-actualization, people first need to have some of their basic [...]
100% Telehealth is not a Dream
Over the past years, telehealth has proven itself to be a viable approach to delivering care safely and effectively in many cases, under many circumstances. While telehealth will never replace 100% of in-person care, [...]
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 [...]
4 Strategies to Increase Demand for your Telemedicine Service
The Covid-19 health crisis gave birth to at least dozens if not hundreds of startups offering specific telemedicine services. From ad hoc urgent care and behavioral health to specialty services addressing men’s health or Covid testing: the breadth of services [...]
Maximizing the ROI of Telehealth
As healthcare organizations are realizing that telehealth is here to stay, the attention quickly turns to three important questions: what should our telehealth services roadmap look like, what is the right technology we should be using and how can [...]