Telehealth & Covid-19
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 [...]
12 Gifts for Your Telehealth Program
The Covid-19 health crisis of 2020 showed many patients (a.k.a., modern healthcare consumers) and many clinicians how much care can be delivered at a distance (a.k.a. telehealth). While telehealth served as a readily available [...]
One Swallow does not a Summer Make
A young man, a great spendthrift, had run through all his patrimony and had but one good cloak left. One day he happened to see a swallow, which had appeared before its season, skimming along a pool and twittering gaily. [...]
Achieving Telehealth Success through Conscious Proactive Change Management
I’ve emphasized before that Telehealth is not about the Technology, but predominantly about effectively managing the organizational change. This week’s article lays out the five most common behaviors working against telehealth and describes the tactics eliminating or diminishing the effects [...]
Ignorance, Inertia, and Internal Resources: Three Obstacles to Success in Telehealth
Ask anybody in the healthcare industry to give it some serious thought and the conclusion is inevitable: Telehealth is here to stay. At Ingenium Digital Health, we define telehealth as “delivering healthcare at a distance” and if we look at [...]
Considering Complexity in Selecting Your Next Telehealth Service
In line with the exponential growth telehealth is currently experiencing, it is important that organizations spend their time and resources wisely on launching telehealth services that have the highest likelihood of success. As I described previously, there are multiple factors [...]
Improving Physician Satisfaction through Telehealth
Telehealth is a valuable tool to improving the satisfaction of physicians and the entire care team. This article explains three ways how telehealth can be leveraged to improve physician satisfaction. Telehealth is not just about the technology. It is [...]
Prioritizing Telehealth: An Engineer’s Formula
After many decades of slow progress, telehealth adoption is at last growing exponentially. According to a survey of 800 physicians, the number of physicians who have used telemedicine went from 5% in 2015 to 22% 2018 -- an exponential increase [...]