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 [...]
EHR Telehealth: A CTO’s dream & the nightmare of MDs & patients
“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.” — Ben Franklin Selecting your EHR/EMR’s embedded telehealth offering seems to be a straightforward decision: all clinicians already have access to the software and [...]
Improving the Performance of Telebehavioral Health
Over the last few weeks, Telehealth Tuesday has covered the various facets of Telebehavioral Health and how to take your Telebehavioral Health service to the next level. In this week’s column we’re applying the concept of measuring telehealth success to [...]
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 [...]