Telehealth Tuesday Articles

Most Healthcare Organizations’ Strategic Plans follow pretty much the same blueprint, covering the same five or six “pillars”, including quality, service, people, finance, growth and community.As Healthcare Organizations’ maturity regarding [...]

by Telehealth Tuesday guest author Howard Reis. Thanks Seema Verma, then the CMS administrator, who in April 2020 declared, “the genie out of the bottle on this one”. As [...]

After the Covid-19 health crisis catapulted telehealth into the limelight, it is now obvious to most leaders that telehealth is here to stay. As healthcare organizations are slowly leaving [...]

Telehealth has taken the care delivery world by storm due to the Covid-19 health crisis. An esoteric way to receive care at best before March 2020, virtually every patient [...]

Have you ever thought about the meaning of the word “workflow”? Once you do, it’s quite obvious: the workflow defines how the work flows — literally. In this week’s [...]

Optimization is commonly defined as the act of making the best use of a resource. Optimization is also a mindset to continually improve: not to pursue perfection, but to continue [...]

The maternal health statistics pertaining maternal mortality in the US are nothing but shocking. From 1990, whereas the maternal death rate has steadily fallen by as much as 60%, [...]

Or have you already hired Proof-of-Concepts? I am relentlessly driven to optimize efficiency and effectiveness in everything I do. Having been involved in the design and implementation of technical solutions [...]

“The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.” — Ben Franklin Selecting your EHR/EMR’s embedded telehealth offering seems to be a straightforward [...]

Over the last few weeks, Telehealth Tuesday has covered the various facets of Telebehavioral Health and how to take your Telebehavioral Health service to the next level. In this week’s [...]

A couple weeks back I wrote about improving mental & behavioral health at a distance. In the article I highlighted the different types of telebehavioral health and the various modalities [...]

As the end of the Covid-19 health crisis tunnel is in sight, more and more healthcare organizations are evaluating their current and future use of telehealth.Which is understandable, given that [...]

The use of video visits for the treatment of mental and behavioral health was one of the first applications of telehealth. But over the past decades TeleBehavioralHealth (which includes TeleMentalHealth) [...]

The expression of “webside manners” is a play on word of combining web presence with bedside manners. In this third and final part we are concluding this series by [...]

The positive effect of good “bedside manners”, i.e., clinicians' behavior toward patients, has been studied and understood for many years. As a study of 13 clinical trials found, “when [...]

At the beginning of the Covid-19 health crisis many clinicians (physician and advanced practice providers) were unceremoniously thrown into the world of telehealth. With a highly-infectious deadly virus rampaging [...]

Over the past year, a lot has happened, is still happening and is going to happen in the Telehealth universe. At the height of the Covid-19 health crisis we’ve [...]

The concept of hybrid is to combine the best of two worlds. A gasoline engine and an electric engine in hybrid cars. In-person and virtual learning in hybrid learning. [...]

Telehealth is everywhere. In the news. On Clubhouse. On the radio. On the frontpage of hometown newspapers. But we need to stop treating telehealth like it’s a novelty, or [...]

The Covid-19 health crisis gave birth to at least dozens if not hundreds of startups offering specific telemedicine services. From ad hoc urgent care and behavioral health to specialty services [...]

As healthcare organizations are realizing that telehealth is here to stay, the attention quickly turns to three important questions: what should our telehealth services roadmap look like, what is [...]

Optimization is the science (and often art) to make the best use out of a resource. The strive for doing the right things (effectiveness) and doing things right (efficiency) leads [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]