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Beyond Covid: From Virtual Care to Connected Health
For decades, telehealth has been a largely underutilized mode of care delivery even though telehealth repeatedly demonstrated increased access to care and improved health outcomes. The Covid-19 health crisis changed [...]
Telehealth is Not in Kansas Anymore
Last week I had the great honor of accepting a request to facilitate an international panel of fascinating telehealth innovation experts for the Festival of Telehealth on the topic [...]
6 Smart Moves to Optimize Telehealth
Over the past 10 months I’ve written extensively about the shortcomings of poorly implemented telehealth: “The Top 4 Side Effects of poorly implemented telehealth”, “6 Ways Telehealth Failed in [...]
Which Telehealth Technology is Best?
As healthcare organizations are assessing how to best leverage telehealth for the delivery of care in the long run, the question turns quickly to assessing the various technology solutions [...]
Thoughts on Foley & Lardner’s
Top 5 Telehealth Law Predictions for 2021
In December I surmised that, indeed, telehealth reimbursement is here to stay - simply because it was already pretty good before the Covid-19 health crisis emergency regulations. Granted, the [...]
3 Characteristics & 3 Root Causes of Mediocre Telehealth
The Covid-19 health crisis quickly turned everyone’s attention to telehealth as a means to keep providers and staff safe and patients both safe and healthy. Most organizations very quickly [...]
Is Audio-Only Telehealth Good Medicine?
Last week a telehealth workgroup comprising insurers, providers, and policy makers from the state of Vermont submitted a recommendation to their state, arguing for keeping the reimbursement for audio-only [...]
Transforming Care Delivery through Telehealth
A few weeks back I posted a couple of articles describing the 7 levels of telehealth maturity that organizations pass through as the acceptance and permanence of their telehealth [...]
Our most Popular Telehealth Guidance from 2020
Over the past year, we’ve published 51 articles covering a broad range of topics about all things telehealth. Of course the Covid-19 health crisis accelerated the adoption of telehealth [...]
Yes, Virginia, there is Telehealth Reimbursement
This phrase, if it does not ring an immediate “bell”, is a nod to the famous reply in the New York Sun from 1897. In response to a question from [...]
6 Ways Telehealth Failed in 2020
On many accounts, 2020 was the year of telehealth. In response to the Covid-19 health crisis, a quick solution was needed to safely provide care for patients, especially those [...]
From Chaos to Supported: Growing Telehealth Maturity
In last week’s Telehealth Tuesday article I covered the 7 Levels of Telehealth Maturity which ranged from “chaotic” to “transformative”. In today’s article I’ll be diving deeper into the [...]
The 7 Levels of Telehealth Maturity
Telehealth has been launched at virtually every healthcare organization in the wake of the Covid-19 health crisis. While some initially treated it as a convenient backup solution, most have [...]
The Telehealth Landscape is About to Change
These days, there are surely some interesting dynamics at play. And no, I’m not talking about the post-election dynamics or the holidays during a full-blown health crisis. I am [...]
Telehealth Success is not about Clinical Outcomes
I’d be the first to tell you that anything we do in healthcare has to focus on achieving positive clinical outcomes. And, just like any other care delivery modality, [...]
3 Must-Dos to Prepare for Ransomware Attacks
It's heartbreaking, frightening and infuriating to realize that with a stroke of an enter key a hacker thousands of miles away can shut down access to critical care. And [...]
Measuring the 5 Most Critical Telehealth Metrics
In last week’s article I laid out a simple framework of five key metrics that telehealth leaders need to pay attention to when it comes to measuring telehealth success. [...]
5 Telehealth Metrics Healthcare Leaders Need to Pay Attention to
With telehealth having been launched virtually overnight in most healthcare organizations, many leaders are pretty much in the dark when it comes to their insights into the performance of [...]
Is Virtual Care Worsening Outcomes?
The Covid-19 health crisis accelerated the wide-spread adoption of virtual care to quickly get care to the patients while keeping physicians, staff and patients safe. But after many months [...]
No Virtual Care Waiting Rooms, Please!
As we are getting more and more familiar with the new virtual care paradigm, the “new normal” seems to slowly now also embrace the widespread abomination of traditional care: [...]
The Virtual Care Bill of Patients’ Rights
Virtual Care, a more mainstream term than “telehealth” or “telemedicine”, has swept the nation in the wake of the Covid-19 health crisis. Millions of patients have “seen” (or at [...]
Better Prenatal Care through Telehealth
About 2 Million babies were born in the US from the beginning of the Covid-19 health crisis and the end of September 2020. Based on pre-Covid statistics at least [...]
Telehealth Success through Conscious Change Management
A quote from one of the brothers Mayo, Dr. Charlie Mayo, has stuck with me all these years: "Today the only thing that is permanent is change." The quote [...]
Telehealth Workflows, Policies & Technologies
Every extraordinary recipe for a sublime dish relies on superb ingredients and high-grade kitchen tools that the seasoned chefs carefully procure and maintain. The secret behind sublime telehealth, lies [...]