Telehealth & Covid-19
A Guide to Accelerating the Adoption of
Digital Health Innovation
Innovation has long been both a driver of growth and a coveted badge of honor across all industries and for a few decades also in healthcare. In the early 2000s, the Mayo [...]
What is Telehealth?
Sometimes it’s a good idea to go back to the basics, the fundamentals. To go up to the 100,000-foot view and take a look from a distance, with a fresh eye, [...]
Dashboard Medicine: Remote Physiological Monitoring (RPM) driving Engagement & Outcomes
These days, when people refer to telehealth, telemedicine, or virtual care, the most common use case that comes to mind is the live video visit. Yet telehealth, defined as “delivering care [...]
The Top 4 Side Effects of Poorly Implemented Telehealth
These days, during the COVID-19 health crisis, telehealth is approached by many leaders as a necessary stop gap measure, as something that they have to do, because restricting patients’ access to care altogether is not a viable option for most [...]
From Remote Care to Virtual Care Management #Covid19
It is now pretty clear to most of us, that social distancing (whether mandated or voluntary) is here to stay for many months. Especially those patients at a higher risk of a coronavirus infection causing harm to them, will be [...]
The 6 Hallmarks of Excellent Telehealth Services
Before COVID-19 it would take most organizations many months to launch a new telemedicine service. Interest or demand was not very high and the individuals assigned to getting the new service up and running were only doing so part-time. [...]
COVID-19 Remote Care Checklist
For organizations around the nation that are shifting to a remote care model by connecting with patients at a distance, here is a helpful checklist (in no particular order) of the various aspects of this new clinical service to [...]
Fitting the Right Telemedicine Service to the Right Need
I've been fond of using one of the quotes of Don Berwick, the founder and past president of the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI): "Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets". In order to get [...]
Covid-19: Launching Telehealth in 5 locations in 2 days
The tension in the medical directors meeting was high. It was now clear that the Coronavirus crisis was going to have a significant impact on the world and on the rural healthcare organization that I was working with. The [...]