Telehealth & Covid-19
Growing Your Innovation Adoption Maturity
— One Level at a Time Innovation is critical in healthcare — but for most organizations, the real challenge isn’t inventing the next AI-powered diagnostic tool. It’s adopting innovation that already exists. Proven innovative solutions [...]
Assessing Your Innovation Maturity Gap
“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” — Cheshire Cat Innovation has never been optional in healthcare. In fact, we wouldn’t be where we are today in medicine without [...]
Accelerating Innovation Adoption: An Innovation Maturity Model
The problem in healthcare is not the lack of innovation. The problem is the s-l-o-w pace of innovation adoption. That’s a theme I’ve returned to again and again in my articles on digital health transformation. [...]
The Gift That Keeps Expiring:
A 3-Month Telehealth Extension?
Lawmakers Extend Telehealth — But Where’s the Permanence? This holiday season 2024, lawmakers delivered what many in the healthcare community see as a gift: a temporary extension of telehealth flexibilities through March 2025. For many patients, especially in rural areas [...]
A Glimpse of the Future of Care Delivery via Telehealth
The ultimate nirvana of human physical wellbeing would be the absence of disease and injury. But even in a world where all diseases are successfully prevented, someone (or something), presumably, still needs to administer those prophylactic treatments. For the [...]
Blueprint for Sustainable Virtual Care:
3 Tactics to Drive Long-Term Success
Virtual care is no longer a luxury — it’s the foundation of modern healthcare delivery. Recent surveys reveal that at least 2 out of 3 patients now expect their healthcare providers to offer digital options — or risk losing them [...]
Are Rural Hospitals Better Off Because of Telehealth?
For the past few months, I’ve been writing quite a bit about the use of telehealth to fix rural healthcare. A few weeks ago, someone in my extended network posed a great question on LinkedIn: "Are rural hospitals (critical access [...]
Patient Activation: The Secret to RPM Success
RPM, Remote Physiological Monitoring, is a proven, valuable telehealth solution that can greatly improve outcomes for patients with chronic diseases or prevent readmissions of patients recently discharged from the hospital. A few weeks ago I outlined the 5 Reasons [...]
Creating RPM Success by Designing Superb Support
In this third article of our series on overcoming the 5 Reasons Why RPM Programs Fail, we are exploring the root cause of reason #4 “Lack of Clinician Buy In” and reason #1 “Lack of Patient Engagement”. It's the [...]