Telehealth & Covid-19
Using Virtual Care to Care For More Patients
Telehealth visits are often thought of as an alternative care delivery method when patients cannot easily come into the clinic due to transportation challenges, child care challenges, or because they can’t easily take time off [...]
Can Virtual First Become the Norm?
Last week I had an interesting, enjoyable experience. When asking our 13-year old’s primary care provider for a referral to an allergist for her eczema and presumed heat rash, we were told that the [...]
Traditional Healthcare Needs a Paradigm Shift
This week's Telehealth Tuesday article is based on Dr. Erkan Hassan's recent article on the same topic. Dr. Hassan is a member of the Ingenium Healthcare Advisors Consortium and brings over 20 years of [...]
The 7 Levels of Telehealth Maturity
Telehealth has been launched at virtually every healthcare organization in the wake of the Covid-19 health crisis. While some initially treated it as a convenient backup solution, most have by now realized that telehealth is here to stay. But [...]
The Telehealth Landscape is About to Change
These days, there are surely some interesting dynamics at play. And no, I’m not talking about the post-election dynamics or the holidays during a full-blown health crisis. I am talking about the forces at play at this very moment, [...]
Telehealth Success is not about Clinical Outcomes
I’d be the first to tell you that anything we do in healthcare has to focus on achieving positive clinical outcomes. And, just like any other care delivery modality, that includes telehealth. But Telehealth Success is not about Clinical [...]
3 Must-Dos to Prepare for Ransomware Attacks
It's heartbreaking, frightening and infuriating to realize that with a stroke of an enter key a hacker thousands of miles away can shut down access to critical care. And it’s not a question of “IF”, but only a question [...]
Measuring the 5 Most Critical Telehealth Metrics
In last week’s article I laid out a simple framework of five key metrics that telehealth leaders need to pay attention to when it comes to measuring telehealth success. They are: physician and patient satisfaction technical performance visit volume [...]
5 Telehealth Metrics Healthcare Leaders Need to Pay Attention to
With telehealth having been launched virtually overnight in most healthcare organizations, many leaders are pretty much in the dark when it comes to their insights into the performance of their organization’s telehealth services. Without “knowing how it’s going”, healthcare [...]