Telehealth Tuesday Articles

Telehealth Tuesday is a weekly publication that provides insights, strategies, and practical advice on telehealth and digital health advancements. We help healthcare professionals, organizations, and leaders navigate the rapidly evolving telehealth landscape and optimize their digital health initiatives through:
- Practical Strategies: Actionable advice for designing and scaling telehealth programs.
- Inspiration and Vision: Insights into the future of digital health and innovative care delivery models.
- Problem-Solving Tips: Solutions to common telehealth challenges, from workflow issues to vendor selection.
- Industry Trends: Up-to-date knowledge on emerging technologies and telehealth regulations.
Telehealth Tuesday's Focus Areas
- Telehealth Optimization: Improving efficiency and effectiveness in telehealth programs.
- Remote Physiological Monitoring (RPM): Addressing challenges and strategies for successful implementation.
- Digital Health Innovations: Exploring cutting-edge technologies and trends in healthcare delivery.
- Operational Strategies: Offering guidance on governance, workflow design, and ROI analysis.
- Insights on Healthcare Transformation: Visionary ideas on the future of healthcare delivery, including AI, hospital-at-home models, and rural healthcare access.
Telehealth Tuesday's Target Audience
- Healthcare Leaders and Administrators: Decision-makers responsible for telehealth and digital health strategies.
- Clinicians and Providers: Professionals seeking to improve patient care using telehealth tools.
- Healthcare IT Professionals: Those managing the technical aspects of telehealth implementation.
- Policymakers and Consultants: Individuals shaping the broader healthcare ecosystem.
Reactions from Telehealth Tuesday Readers
A Blueprint for Launching a Telehealth Clinic: Part 2 — Launch, Run, and Optimize
From First Patient to Sustainable Practice In last week’s article, we introduced a framework to help clinicians launch a virtual clinic. That blueprint included four phases: BEFORE – Clarifying [...]
Launching a Telehealth Clinic:
A Blueprint For Getting Started
As I explored in last week’s article, clinicians of all specialties and ages are exploring the viability and process of launching a virtual clinic to offer their clinical expertise [...]
So, Doctor, You Want to Launch a Telehealth Clinic?
9 questions to ask before turning your clinical expertise into a virtual practice A few years ago, I wrote an article titled “So, Doctor, You Want to Launch a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Turning Your Telehealth Policy Into Real-World Care
This Telehealth Tuesday article was written by Trevor Cunningham, a telehealth consultant on the Ingenium Team.Over the past few years, I have enabled administrators and compliance managers at a variety [...]
The Architecture of a Modern Telehealth Policy
This Telehealth Tuesday article was written by Trevor Cunningham, a telehealth consultant on the Ingenium Team. This article is the second in our three-part Telehealth Tuesday series on building [...]
From Makeshift to Master Plan: Why Mature Healthcare Organizations Need a Purposeful Telehealth Policy
This Telehealth Tuesday article was written by Trevor Cunningham, a telehealth consultant on the Ingenium Team.In just a few short years, telehealth has evolved from a pandemic-era necessity into an [...]
Bridging the Distance: Telehealth for Unbridged Islands
Imagine needing medical care—but there are no roads, no bridges, and weather conditions can delay travel for days. For residents of islands, even if they are just off-shore, but [...]
Success with Telebehavioral Health:
5 Tactics to Keeping Kids Engaged
Delivering behavioral health services to teenagers has never been simple — but it’s especially complex when the connection is virtual and the setting is a school or the home. [...]
Is Telehealth a Clinic Killer?
Since the beginning of the year — after Chris Adamec’s great talk at the January 2025 Telehealth T-Time — I’ve been debunking common myths that politicians and other healthcare non-experts [...]
The Virtual Physical Exam:
Bringing Clinical Excellence to Telehealth
While telehealth in an integrated, hybrid care environment enjoys a high percentage of utilization in behavioral health and specialty care, most primary care providers are still, for the most part, [...]
Innovation in a Crisis: A Guide for Healthcare Leaders
Trigger warning: This article contains an unusually high number of overused quotes. Crises in healthcare — whether they involve financial pressures, policy changes, or unexpected disruptions — often lead [...]
5 Reasons Why Your Clinicians (Still) Don’t Like Telehealth
Despite the accelerated adoption of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic, many clinicians — especially in community health centers, rural health clinics, or smaller rural health systems — continue to resist [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Future of Healthcare Delivery: Telehealth
As 2024 was nearing its end, a group of Telehealth Enthusiasts got together as part of the December Telehealth T-Time meeting to design the future of healthcare delivery. Kicking off [...]
A Virtual Conversation with a Telehealth Denier
While one Ebenezer Scrooge had animated conversations with three ghosts, I envisioned over the holidays what it would be like to have a spirited debate with a fictional yet vocal [...]
Best of Telehealth Tuesday 2024
Happy 2025! As we close out 2024, I’m excited to share this special “Best Of” Telehealth Tuesdays edition, highlighting the most popular and impactful articles from the past year. Whether [...]