Telehealth & Covid-19
What Is Your Team’s CPT Code?
In the world of healthcare, a CPT® code refers to the (trademarked) acronym of the Current Procedural Terminology, a set of codes describing medical procedures received by patients. In the world of [...]
Sustainable Telehealth & Digital Health Success: Be Brisk, Go Big, Go Bold — Or Go Broke!
By now, the spring of 2023, the leadership of any healthcare organization should have figured out two inevitable truths: Telehealth is here to stay, will continue to grow, will over time [...]
The 7 Skills of a Rock Star Telehealth Coordinator
In last week’s Telehealth Tuesday I described the 7 critical qualities, 4 responsibilities, and 7 key skills that make a Telehealth a Rock Star in their profession: Customer Service Skills (Customers [...]
Who’s in charge of your Telehealth Services?
This is a story about four leaders named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. Once upon a time, during a big crisis, there was an important job to be done. Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could [...]
Remote Care 2.0: The Road to Real Telemedicine
For years we've been using the well-established terms of Telehealth (“Delivering Care at a Distance”) and Telemedicine (“Practicing Medicine at a Distance”). In the middle of March 2020, right at the beginning of the worldwide social distancing due to [...]
Telehealth and the Black Swan
A "Black Swan", a theory developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, is the occurrence of a highly improbable event that has a major impact on our lives. While the Covid-19 pandemic has long been expected by researchers and (some) politicians, [...]
Hybrid Care Delivery: The Best of Both Worlds
The delivery of care is one of the last domains to be taken “online”. 30 years ago most banking transactions were conducted in a bank. 20 years ago most trips were booked in travel agencies. 15 years ago most books, [...]
Telehealth: It’s going to get worse, before it gets better
At the beginning of the lockdown and spread of social distancing due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Telehealth was quickly turned to as a valuable tool to safely deliver care at a distance. Physicians both wanted their patients to stay [...]
Two More Misconceptions about Telehealth
A few months ago, before the start of the Covid-19 health crisis in the US, I wrote a series of articles about the 6 common misconceptions about telehealth: That the launch of telehealth is an IT project. That there [...]