Telehealth & Covid-19
5 Critical Metrics for Telehealth Success
Given the technical advances over the past 15 years, the modern healthcare consumer’s increasing demand for convenience, and the growing non-traditional competitive pressures, it is quite conceivable that within 5 years over 50% of [...]
Innovation in Healthcare: The Innovation Prioritization Funnel
Without the adoption of innovation virtually no business will be able to survive, and even in healthcare it will become increasingly difficult to get by with “business as usual”, just by optimizing the old [...]
Innovation in Healthcare: Accelerating Innovation Adoption
“The Problem in Healthcare is not the Lack of Innovation. The Problem is the Lack of Innovation Adoption.” — Christian Milaster Innovation, especially in healthcare, seems to be the “name of the game” these [...]
Digital Health Terminology, Part 2: Connected Health
“No man is an island, entire of itself.”― John DonneThese days it seems that every week a new star or galaxy is discovered in the Digital Health universe. Social and internet media are abuzz with new terms, mostly without a [...]
Telemedicine, Telehealth, Connected Health, and Digital Health Defined
When it comes to using technology to deliver healthcare effectively, we are in a state of widespread confusion. And this confusion is contributing to the lack of progress on the healthcare innovation front, especially on the legislative and fiscal side. [...]
Why Telehealth Is Not About Technology
Quick! Let’s play a word association game: What are the first five words that come to mind when you hear the word “telehealth”? [cue Jeopardy music here]How about video, distance, network, telephone, camera? What images come to mind? That notorious [...]
Why Healthcare Organizations Need a Telehealth Business Plan
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." - Dwight D. Eisenhower Telehealth is the delivery of healthcare services at a distance. It encompasses services like telemedicine [...]