Telehealth & Covid-19
A Guide to Accelerating the Adoption of
Digital Health Innovation
Innovation has long been both a driver of growth and a coveted badge of honor across all industries and for a few decades also in healthcare. In the early 2000s, the Mayo [...]
What is Telehealth?
Sometimes it’s a good idea to go back to the basics, the fundamentals. To go up to the 100,000-foot view and take a look from a distance, with a fresh eye, [...]
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 [...]
Digital Health, Defined: Health IT & Precision Medicine
The future is already here; it's just not very evenly distributed. — William Gibson In this final installment of the 3-part series on ending the confusion around the digital health terminology (the previous two parts focused on Telehealth and [...]
Is the Dunning-Kruger Effect hampering your Telehealth Success?
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance” - ConfuciusIf your organization is like many healthcare organizations, you are probably either contemplating to do something about telehealth, might have dipped your toe into telehealth (by using a telestroke [...]
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 [...]