Telehealth & Covid-19
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 [...]
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? [...]
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 [...]
Telehealth Success through Conscious Change Management
A quote from one of the brothers Mayo, Dr. Charlie Mayo, has stuck with me all these years: "Today the only thing that is permanent is change." The quote was recorded almost 90 years ago in 1931 and never [...]
Telehealth Workflows, Policies & Technologies
Every extraordinary recipe for a sublime dish relies on superb ingredients and high-grade kitchen tools that the seasoned chefs carefully procure and maintain. The secret behind sublime telehealth, lies in a similar list of ingredients and tools, namely workflows, [...]
Why Healthcare Organizations need a Telehealth Strategy
A bridge is typically a metaphor for creating a shortcut, crossing a chasm, or to overcome an obstacle like a river. A Telehealth Strategy serves the same purpose: to navigate you confidently across and through the uncertain future to [...]
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 [...]