Telehealth & Covid-19
8 Reasons Why Clinicians are Apprehensive About Telehealth
…and what to do about it. When your organization finally embraces telehealth, recognizing it as a critical strategic tool to give your “modern healthcare consumers” (a.k.a. patients) what they want (i.e., convenience) you're still left [...]
Serving More Patients Through Virtual Care
While virtual care is becoming increasingly more ubiquitous — holding steady in primary care and continuing to grow in behavioral health — it is still often seen as merely an alternative care delivery method. [...]
Using Virtual Care to Care For More Patients
Telehealth visits are often thought of as an alternative care delivery method when patients cannot easily come into the clinic due to transportation challenges, child care challenges, or because they can’t easily take time off [...]
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 [...]