Telehealth & Covid-19
Innovation in Healthcare: From Idea to Validation
In a January 2023 article describing their take on 5 predictions for telehealth in 2023, the American Medical Association (AMA) promoted its recently published report: “Closing the Digital Health Disconnect: A Blueprint for Optimizing [...]
Best of Telehealth Tuesday 2022
Telehealth Tuesday was born in October 2019 out of the desire to share best practices and make the case for telehealth. In addition to our emailed newsletter (which each week includes a short personal editorial) [...]
Increasing the Value of Telehealth
The beginning of a New Year is always a good time for prophecies and predictions. This is especially valuable if they are rooted in reality, based on actual data. The healthcare advisory firm Sage [...]
Making Care Personal
One could easily make the case that nothing is more personal than health care. We allow others to probe and prod our bodies and our minds. We even let foreign and sharp objects enter our body cavities and skin. We [...]
Digital Health Defined and Decomposed
Digital Health is quite the broad term that it is challenging for many healthcare leaders to put their arms around the totality of it all, when trying to decide where to focus their attention (and investments of time, money, [...]
The Four Realms of Digital Health
Digital Health is quite a broad term that it is challenging for many healthcare leaders to put their arms around the totality of it all, when trying to decide where to focus their attention (and investments of time, money, and [...]
Is your organization prepared for the Digital Health Avalanche?
Well on its way and now barreling down the mountain toward you, gaining momentum, is the avalanche of Digital Health Solutions. Preliminary mini-avalanches, like meteor showers, have steadily been arriving - and are being picked up and used by companies [...]
Technology-Related Fails of Telehealth Services (16 Fails, Part 3)
The first association most people make with Telehealth is technology. The word tele (as in telescope, telegraph, and telephone) implies that you need technology to make telehealth work. Which is true, but, as it turns out, only a small part [...]
Financial Fails in Launching a Telehealth Service (16 Fails, Part 2)
Telehealth is defined as “delivering care at a distance” and by that definition, the launch of a telehealth service requires a mindset of launching a new healthcare service offering. Yet many organizations approach telehealth as a Health IT implementation project [...]