Telehealth Tuesday Articles

In 2019 the American Telemedicine Association declared as the tag line for their annual conference a concept that’s been long in the minds of those having been involved in [...]

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 [...]