Telehealth & Covid-19
Measuring the 5 Most Critical Telehealth Metrics
In last week’s article I laid out a simple framework of five key metrics that telehealth leaders need to pay attention to when it comes to measuring telehealth success. They are: clinician satisfaction patient [...]
5 Telehealth Metrics Healthcare Leaders
Need to Pay Attention to
As Telehealth becomes an increasingly important strategic tool in attracting and serving the modern healthcare consumers’ desire for convenience, it is imperative that healthcare leaders pay attention to the performance of their telehealth services. [...]
Telehealth Performance Metrics
How do you assess the performance of telehealth? As the most quotable American quipped below, setting yourself a destination is key to knowing when you are successful. If you don’t know where [...]
How do you measure Telehealth Success?
As the quote below highlights, measuring success can be a tricky business. Not all metrics we could collect are meaningful and some relevant aspects of telehealth success are difficult to measure accurately. Not everything that can be counted counts. [...]
TeleRooming: Preparing your patients for telemedicine visits
For the last 17 years I’ve been an adamant fan and promoter of telehealth, predicting that over 80% of patients’ interactions with healthcare providers could be delivered “at a distance”. And it’s only 80% because I have also learned [...]
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, [...]