Telehealth & Covid-19
Scaling Rural Telebehavioral Health: Five Interventions That Actually Work
Rural communities face some of the steepest barriers to behavioral health care in the country — long travel distances, limited connectivity, low digital literacy, a pronounced clinical provider shortage, and wide-spread stigma around seeking help [...]
How One FQHC Used Proof-of-Concepts
To Achieve a Smarter Telehealth Rollout
When most organizations think about launching or relaunching a telehealth program (or any type of digital health innovation), the default focus is on logistics — buying equipment & licenses, figuring out policies, or provider [...]
Are You Still Using Telehealth Pilots?
Or have you already hired Proof-of-Concepts? As a German engineer it seems that I’ve been pre-wired to be relentlessly driven to optimize efficiency and effectiveness in everything I do. Having been involved in the [...]
The Future of AI in Healthcare: A Transformational Shift
With the rapid advancements in generative AI over the past two years, Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept in healthcare — it’s a rapidly evolving force that is set to reshape patient care, clinical workflows, and provider-patient [...]
Optimizing Telebehavioral Health Performance
At the core, any optimization of behavioral health starts with a look at opportunities to increase capacity and subsequently the utilization of that capacity. With growing behavioral health clinician shortages, each appointment slot potentially represents a critical lifeline for a [...]
Aligning Clinician and Patient Telehealth Expectations
Telehealth has experienced a meteoric rise in adoption over the past few years, driven largely by necessity during the pandemic. Patients, having experienced the convenience of virtual care, have increasingly expressed a preference for telehealth services. However, despite this enthusiasm, [...]
Bridging Healthcare Gaps: Telemedicine in Modern Hospitals
In the face of mounting challenges, telemedicine has emerged as a transformative force in healthcare, particularly for rural hospitals. During a recent Telehealth T-Time talk titled "Bridging Healthcare Gaps: The Role of Telemedicine in Modern Hospitals," Dr. Vimarsh Raina provided [...]
Payment Parity: Should Virtual Care Cost Less?
In last week’s Telehealth Tuesday, I tackled the myth that telehealth drives up healthcare costs, showing how expanded access doesn’t necessarily mean higher spending. This week, let’s explore another common misconception oftentimes perpetuated by politicians: We should be able to [...]
Does Telehealth Really Drive Up Costs
Last week, at the January 2025 Telehealth T-Time, Chris Adamec, Executive Director of the Alliance for Connected Care, shared a list of common perceptions that policymakers are currently holding about telehealth. One of the most striking of these was the [...]