Telehealth & Covid-19
3 Tactics for Sustainable Virtual Care
By now it's obvious to everyone that virtual care is here to stay. It offers demonstrable benefits in terms of convenient access to care leading to increased continuity of care which can result in [...]
Increasing Provider Capacity through Virtual Care
Author’s note: Today’s article marks the 200th edition of Telehealth Tuesday. Launched well before Covid in 2018, Telehealth Tuesday has helped me to capture the many lessons we’ve learned in helping organizations to launch, optimize, [...]
Telehealth Creates Strategic Success
Over the past week’s I’ve been writing a lot about the what, the how, and the why of measuring the performance of your telehealth services. Today’s column presents another argument as to why measuring telehealth [...]
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, [...]
Telehealth: It’s going to get worse, before it gets better
At the beginning of the lockdown and spread of social distancing due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Telehealth was quickly turned to as a valuable tool to safely deliver care at a distance. Physicians both wanted their patients to stay [...]
Two More Misconceptions about Telehealth
A few months ago, before the start of the Covid-19 health crisis in the US, I wrote a series of articles about the 6 common misconceptions about telehealth: That the launch of telehealth is an IT project. That there [...]