Telehealth & Covid-19
What does an AI think about Telehealth?
Many Telehealth Tuesday readers have in recent months pointed me towards ChatGPT (launched in November 2022) and invited me to assess its relationship with or value for modern medicine. While this [...]
Innovation in Healthcare:
Clinician Engagement for Digital Health Adoption
The problem in Healthcare is not the lack of innovation. It is the slow pace of innovation adoption. I don’t think I can repeat this phrase often enough. Given the [...]
Innovation in Healthcare:
Successful Innovation Implementation
In the world of digital health innovation, it is not sufficient to just have a great solution that works. It is equally important to ensure that the solution is actually used and that it [...]
Telehealth: The Swiss Army Knife of Healthcare
Most Healthcare Organizations’ Strategic Plans follow pretty much the same blueprint, covering the same six or seven areas, including quality, service, people, finance, growth and community. As Healthcare Organizations’ maturity regarding the use of digital health and telehealth technologies improves, [...]
A New Mindset: Causing the Positive Risks of Telehealth
The Project Management Institute (PMI) defines a project risk as "an uncertain event or condition that, if it occurs, has a positive or negative effect on a project's objectives."What I love about that definition is that it does not merely [...]
The 3 Most Critical Considerations for Successful Direct-To-Consumer Telemedicine
It seems like these days every health system and every payor is launching a direct-to-consumer telemedicine service. Yet self-reportedly few of these programs result in the adoption that people had hoped for or anticipated. "Direct-to-consumer" (DTC) telemedicine is but [...]
3 Digital Health New Year’s Resolutions
The dawn of a new year is always a great opportunity to start afresh, resolving to not let another year pass without making good on last year’s promises and insights.For healthcare delivery organizations I declare it of the utmost importance [...]
The 12 Gifts for Telehealth Success
For the 12 days of Christmas, my telehealth consultant gave to me…these 12 gifts of insights as to how you can ensure the likelihood of creating, improving, and running a sustainable, valuable telehealth service. Enjoy!On the first day of Christmas, [...]
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 [...]