Telehealth & Covid-19
96 Common Video Telemedicine Scenarios
If you’ve been reading my Telehealth Tuesday column for a while, you know that I always urge my readers to pay particular attention to the various workflows leading up to and [...]
What Is Your Team’s CPT Code?
In the world of healthcare, a CPT® code refers to the (trademarked) acronym of the Current Procedural Terminology, a set of codes describing medical procedures received by patients. In the world of [...]
Sustainable Telehealth & Digital Health Success: Be Brisk, Go Big, Go Bold — Or Go Broke!
By now, the spring of 2023, the leadership of any healthcare organization should have figured out two inevitable truths: Telehealth is here to stay, will continue to grow, will over time [...]
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 [...]