Telehealth Tuesday Articles

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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), [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]