Telehealth Tuesday Articles
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 [...]
Why Healthcare Organizations need a Telehealth Strategy
A bridge is typically a metaphor for creating a shortcut, crossing a chasm, or to overcome an obstacle like a river. A Telehealth Strategy serves the same purpose: to [...]
The Basics of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM)
For months now we have been covering the telemedicine subset of “Interactive Patient Care’, which is typically delivered via a live audio/video connection, though during the Covid-19 health crisis [...]
Telehealth for Post-Acute Care
Telehealth is often thought of as a tool to conduct video visits for “regular”, non-acute care. A few weeks ago I covered a number of use cases for telehealth [...]
The Digital Health Future is Already Here – It is Just Not Evenly Distributed
Even before the Covid-19 health crisis the Digital Health future was already here. It just was not evenly distributed and only existed in isolated experiments and trials. But Covid-19 [...]
TeleAcuteCare – Telehealth in the Hospital
In the middle of the Covid-19 health crisis most of us think of telehealth as a way to keep people out of the clinic environment, out of the hospital. [...]
Telehealth Visits are more Secure, Offer more Privacy
Did that headline stump you? Do you think of telehealth as offering more privacy or less privacy than an in-person visit? We live in interesting times and not just [...]
Healthcare Innovation: My Take on 7 Big Ideas
Last week, Beckers’ Hospital Review posted a collection of quotes from 9 healthcare leaders about the role of innovation in healthcare. What’s striking about the list of quotes is [...]
Getting the Telehealth Results you Want
Over the past weeks I covered in a series of articles how you can measure and create telehealth success and make telehealth enjoyable for physicians. This week, I’ll focus [...]
Making Telemedicine Enjoyable for Physicians
Are your physicians embracing telemedicine? Are you a physician that likes doing telemedicine? If not, read on. I may have a diagnosis and treatment plan that can lead to [...]
Telehealth Creates Strategic Success
Most healthcare organizations have been thrust into the use of Telehealth in response to the Covid-19 crisis and many of them are quietly waiting for things to “go back [...]
Measuring Telehealth Success
How do you measure telehealth success? As one of America’s finest street philosophers quipped below, knowing where you’re going is quite important, unless you don’t mind ending up where [...]
How do you measure Telehealth Success?
As the quote below highlights, measuring success can be a tricky business. Not all metrics we could collect are meaningful and some relevant aspects of telehealth success are difficult [...]
TeleRooming: Preparing your patients for telemedicine visits
For the last 17 years I’ve been an adamant fan and promoter of telehealth, predicting that over 80% of patients’ interactions with healthcare providers could be delivered “at a [...]