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 [...]
Is Telehealth Rocket Science?
No, Telehealth is not Rocket Science. But getting clinicians to use telehealth well, is. Let me explain… As many readers of my weekly column know, there’s much more to telehealth than meets the eye. On the one hand there [...]
Telehealth Tuesday Collections
A couple of weeks ago Telehealth Tuesday celebrated its 4th birthday — over 200 articles on all things telehealth and digital health, from taxonomy to strategy, from optimization to measuring success. If you find that amount of articles overwhelming, [...]
A Telehealth Evangelist’s Roadmap – My Take
A couple of weeks ago one of the telehealth trailblazers of the last 30 years, Dr. Joseph Kvedar, reflected on the blazed trail he’s been on thus far and mused on what lies ahead. When in 2016 I revised [...]
Happy 4th Birthday, Telehealth Tuesday!
Four years ago, on Tuesday, October 8, 2019, after returning from a Telehealth Conference in Vegas, I launched Telehealth Tuesday with 32 subscribers and a simple success metric: To publish an article every week on Tuesday morning by 3:33 AM [...]
A Systems Approach to Superb Care Delivery
With a systems engineering mindset I first look at the challenges at hand in the context of the larger system - what happens before, what happens after? Who else is involved, who else is impacted? How do the various “sub [...]
Virtual Care: Your Secret Weapon to Succeed with Value-Based Care
For the longest time, physicians have been paid on a procedural basis: render a service, perform a task and get paid for it. Just like in the old horse and buggy days, from house visits that were paid with a [...]