Telehealth & Covid-19
Telehealth Performance Metrics
How do you assess the performance of telehealth? As the most quotable American quipped below, setting yourself a destination is key to knowing when you are successful. If you don’t know where [...]
How to Measure Telehealth Success
Not everything that can be counted counts. Not everything that counts can be counted. — William Bruce Cameron As the quote highlights, measuring success can be a tricky business. Not all [...]
Are You With the Herd or Just Looking On?
For most people, there is safety in numbers and following what the majority of other people (or, especially in the US, other people like you) are doing, must be okay and safe [...]
The Basics of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM)
For months now we have been covering the telemedicine subset of “Interactive Patient Care’, which is typically delivered via a live audio/video connection, though during the Covid-19 health crisis (too) many are still using “telephonic care” as a way [...]
Telehealth for Post-Acute Care
Telehealth is often thought of as a tool to conduct video visits for “regular”, non-acute care. A few weeks ago I covered a number of use cases for telehealth within the hospital and in this article we’ll be looking [...]
The Digital Health Future is Already Here – It is Just Not Evenly Distributed
Even before the Covid-19 health crisis the Digital Health future was already here. It just was not evenly distributed and only existed in isolated experiments and trials. But Covid-19 has accelerated the use of digital health technologies including the [...]
TeleAcuteCare – Telehealth in the Hospital
In the middle of the Covid-19 health crisis most of us think of telehealth as a way to keep people out of the clinic environment, out of the hospital. But there are a number of excellent use cases for [...]
Telehealth Visits are more Secure, Offer more Privacy
Did that headline stump you? Do you think of telehealth as offering more privacy or less privacy than an in-person visit? We live in interesting times and not just because of Covid-19. Data breaches, identity theft and other data [...]
Healthcare Innovation: My Take on 7 Big Ideas
Last week, Beckers’ Hospital Review posted a collection of quotes from 9 healthcare leaders about the role of innovation in healthcare. What’s striking about the list of quotes is how widely these leaders recognize the importance of delivering care [...]