Telehealth & Covid-19
96 Common Video Telemedicine Scenarios
If you’ve been reading my Telehealth Tuesday column for a while, you know that I always urge my readers to pay particular attention to the various workflows leading up to and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]