Telehealth & Covid-19
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 [...]
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 [...]
Is your organization prepared for the Digital Health Avalanche?
Well on its way and now barreling down the mountain toward you, gaining momentum, is the avalanche of Digital Health Solutions. Preliminary mini-avalanches, like meteor showers, have steadily been arriving - and are being picked up and used by companies [...]
Technology-Related Fails of Telehealth Services (16 Fails, Part 3)
The first association most people make with Telehealth is technology. The word tele (as in telescope, telegraph, and telephone) implies that you need technology to make telehealth work. Which is true, but, as it turns out, only a small part [...]
Financial Fails in Launching a Telehealth Service (16 Fails, Part 2)
Telehealth is defined as “delivering care at a distance” and by that definition, the launch of a telehealth service requires a mindset of launching a new healthcare service offering. Yet many organizations approach telehealth as a Health IT implementation project [...]
16 Ways to Fail in Launching a Telehealth Service (Part 1)
Telehealth is defined as "delivering care at a distance" and by that definition, the launch of a telehealth service requires a mindset of launching a new healthcare service offering. Yet many organizations approach telehealth as a Health IT implementation project [...]
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 [...]