Telehealth & Covid-19
A Guide to Accelerating the Adoption of
Digital Health Innovation
Innovation has long been both a driver of growth and a coveted badge of honor across all industries and for a few decades also in healthcare. In the early 2000s, the Mayo [...]
What is Telehealth?
Sometimes it’s a good idea to go back to the basics, the fundamentals. To go up to the 100,000-foot view and take a look from a distance, with a fresh eye, [...]
Dashboard Medicine: Remote Physiological Monitoring (RPM) driving Engagement & Outcomes
These days, when people refer to telehealth, telemedicine, or virtual care, the most common use case that comes to mind is the live video visit. Yet telehealth, defined as “delivering care [...]
Six Common Misconceptions about Telehealth
Over the years that I’ve been working with health systems on telehealth service strategy, design and implementation I’ve come across a number of misconceptions. As telehealth these days seems to be really taking off now, these misconceptions may be [...]
Telemedicine – It takes a Village
One of the aspects of telemedicine ("practicing medicine at a distance") is that it is not just another healthcare IT project.In healthcare IT projects, typically a need is identified (a new image management system, new business intelligence software, or even [...]
Telehealth: The Swiss Army Knife of Healthcare (Part 2)
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 [...]
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 [...]