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.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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), [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Improving the ROI of RPM Programs
Remote Physiological Monitoring (RPM) is a powerful clinical tool to help patients manage their chronic conditions, prevent hospital readmissions, or to facilitate an early hospital discharge through a hospital at [...]
5 Reasons Why RPM Programs Fail
Over the past years, RPM (Remote Physiological Monitoring), has garnered a lot of interest over the years, but so have reports by many healthcare organizations that RPM programs are not [...]
Rural Telehealth: Beyond Video Visits
One of the biggest challenges facing rural America is access to care and the barriers to accessing care are manifold, including transportation, time, and technology. Obviously one solution is [...]
Barriers to Accessing Care in Rural America
The primary reason for the challenges in accessing care in rural areas is the growing shortage of clinicians practicing in rural areas. According to one statistic, only 1 in [...]
Launching a New Video Visit Vendor
with a Proof-of-Concept
Over the past few editions we’ve covered the various stages and numerous steps of selecting a new video visit vendor. This is the fifth and final article in our series [...]
Happy 5th Birthday, Telehealth Tuesday
Hey Everyone! Before I continue with our “regular programming” next week, I’d like to take a moment to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Telehealth Tuesday. 5 years ago, on [...]
Effective Implementation of A New Video Visit Solution
Congratulations! You’ve successfully selected a vendor after you gathered your requirements and defined your needs. The hard part is over. Or is it? In reality, now is when the “real [...]
Selecting a New Vendor for Video Visits
The public health emergency caused by the Covid-19 health crisis quickly made the use of video visits a necessity. Many organizations scrambled to select a solution and used whatever was [...]
Gathering the Requirements To Select a New Video Visit Vendor
Selecting a new video visit vendor is something that many healthcare organizations are now looking into as they are realizing the value of telehealth as an alternative care delivery modality [...]
Video Visit Vendor Selection: Defining Needs and Requirements
As the use of telehealth to “provide care at a distance” is becoming a more and more acceptable mainstream service, some organizations are evaluating whether their solution for video [...]