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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Fitting the Right Telemedicine Service to the Right Need
I've been fond of using one of the quotes of Don Berwick, the founder and past president of the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI): "Every system is perfectly designed [...]
Covid-19: Launching Telehealth in 5 locations in 2 days
The tension in the medical directors meeting was high. It was now clear that the Coronavirus crisis was going to have a significant impact on the world and on [...]
Using Remote Care for Triage, Diagnosis and Treatment
Almost exactly 100 years ago, the term triage was introduced into the common vocabulary of modern times. The stem of this word, ‘trier’, is of French origin and means [...]
Telehealth for Coronavirus Care
Here’s the basic WHAT of establishing the capability for Community Health’s providers to treat patients for the Coronavirus using live audio/video technology.1. Clinical Guidelines: Clearly define which patients qualify and [...]
5 Things your Telehealth Vendor cannot do for you (Misconception #4)
Whether you’re building a new house or renovating - you’ll typically rely on a multitude of different trades to help you get all the things done that need to [...]
Should your IT Staff run your Telehealth Program? (Misconception #3)
"Telehealth is about technology, right? Without technology, there is no "tele"! And we do need a vendor and some software so we can connect patients with physicians. So let’s ask [...]
Telehealth Requires Multiple Technology Solutions (Misconception #2)
When I come across a new misconception, I’m always curious as to where this particular misconception originated. Oftentimes it is the result of "lazy thinking", taking something you already know [...]
Launching Telehealth is Not a Health IT Project (Misconception #1)
Myths and legends are often born out of a misunderstanding of the complete picture. Similar to the fable of the elephant and the six blind men, when people only see [...]
Six Common Misconceptions about Telehealth
Over the years that I’ve been working with health systems on telehealth service strategy, design and implementation I’ve come across a number of misconceptions. As telehealth these days seems [...]
Telemedicine – It takes a Village
One of the aspects of telemedicine ("practicing medicine at a distance") is that it is not just another healthcare IT project.In healthcare IT projects, typically a need is identified (a [...]
Telehealth: The Swiss Army Knife of Healthcare (Part 2)
Most Healthcare Organizations’ Strategic Plans follow pretty much the same blueprint, covering the same six or seven areas, including quality, service, people, finance, growth and community. As Healthcare Organizations’ [...]
Telehealth: The Swiss Army Knife of Healthcare
Most Healthcare Organizations’ Strategic Plans follow pretty much the same blueprint, covering the same six or seven areas, including quality, service, people, finance, growth and community. As Healthcare Organizations’ maturity [...]
A New Mindset: Causing the Positive Risks of Telehealth
The Project Management Institute (PMI) defines a project risk as "an uncertain event or condition that, if it occurs, has a positive or negative effect on a project's objectives."What I [...]
The 3 Most Critical Considerations for Successful Direct-To-Consumer Telemedicine
It seems like these days every health system and every payor is launching a direct-to-consumer telemedicine service. Yet self-reportedly few of these programs result in the adoption that people [...]
3 Digital Health New Year’s Resolutions
The dawn of a new year is always a great opportunity to start afresh, resolving to not let another year pass without making good on last year’s promises and insights.For [...]
The 12 Gifts for Telehealth Success
For the 12 days of Christmas, my telehealth consultant gave to me…these 12 gifts of insights as to how you can ensure the likelihood of creating, improving, and running a [...]
Making Care Personal
One could easily make the case that nothing is more personal than health care. We allow others to probe and prod our bodies and our minds. We even let foreign [...]
Digital Health Defined and Decomposed
Digital Health is quite the broad term that it is challenging for many healthcare leaders to put their arms around the totality of it all, when trying to decide [...]
The Four Realms of Digital Health
Digital Health is quite a broad term that it is challenging for many healthcare leaders to put their arms around the totality of it all, when trying to decide where [...]
Is your organization prepared for the Digital Health Avalanche?
Well on its way and now barreling down the mountain toward you, gaining momentum, is the avalanche of Digital Health Solutions. Preliminary mini-avalanches, like meteor showers, have steadily been arriving [...]
Technology-Related Fails of Telehealth Services (16 Fails, Part 3)
The first association most people make with Telehealth is technology. The word tele (as in telescope, telegraph, and telephone) implies that you need technology to make telehealth work. Which is [...]
Financial Fails in Launching a Telehealth Service (16 Fails, Part 2)
Telehealth is defined as “delivering care at a distance” and by that definition, the launch of a telehealth service requires a mindset of launching a new healthcare service offering. Yet [...]
16 Ways to Fail in Launching a Telehealth Service (Part 1)
Telehealth is defined as "delivering care at a distance" and by that definition, the launch of a telehealth service requires a mindset of launching a new healthcare service offering. Yet [...]
One Swallow does not a Summer Make
A young man, a great spendthrift, had run through all his patrimony and had but one good cloak left. One day he happened to see a swallow, which had appeared [...]
