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3 Telehealth DOs and DON’Ts for CEOs
As we move into a new year, the need for healthcare CEOs to promote and provide support for the various forms of virtual care services is becoming more and [...]
Using Telehealth to Reduce Losses and Decrease Cost
Post-Covid, telehealth has “survived” as a mainstay modality to deliver care to patients at a distance. And many healthcare leaders now more fully understand that telehealth is much more [...]
How Telehealth Adds to the Bottom Line
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance” — Confucius A Brief History of Telehealth Use For over two decades many clinicians and healthcare leaders, especially in [...]
5 Critical Metrics for Telehealth Success
Given the technical advances over the past 15 years, the modern healthcare consumer’s increasing demand for convenience, and the growing non-traditional competitive pressures, it is quite conceivable that within [...]
Innovation in Healthcare: The Innovation Prioritization Funnel
Without the adoption of innovation virtually no business will be able to survive, and even in healthcare it will become increasingly difficult to get by with “business as usual”, [...]
Innovation in Healthcare: Accelerating Innovation Adoption
“The Problem in Healthcare is not the Lack of Innovation. The Problem is the Lack of Innovation Adoption.” — Christian Milaster Innovation, especially in healthcare, seems to be the [...]
Telehealth in Libraries: Read a Book, See a Doc
For quite some time, public libraries in the US have been considered one of the last public spaces where virtually anyone can gather in a safe environment. In urban [...]
7 Considerations When Launching School-based Telehealth
The ability for a student to be seen by a provider not physically located at the school has been around for at least 20 years. Even before the pandemic, the [...]
Improving Clinician Satisfaction Through Telehealth
In the healthcare leader’s tool chest, Telehealth is a valuable tool to improve the satisfaction of clinicians and the entire care team. Here are three ways how telehealth can [...]
The 7 Levels of Telehealth Training
The efficacious use of telehealth, as I emphasize often, is first and foremost an exercise in well executed change management. The ADKAR® model (developed and promoted by Prosci, Inc.) [...]
Using Telehealth to Address the Nursing Shortage
Wicked problems are challenges that are tricky or impossible to solve due to the intertwined nature of the various factors and root causes that create the problem, most of [...]
Using Telehealth to Combat Clinician Burnout
Clinician burnout has long been a serious problem and the Covid-19 health crisis definitely did not help matters. But what if one of the side effects of the pandemic [...]
The Evolution of Patient Participation
Language is very powerful and certain words can convey a number of different meanings depending on the context and the situation. Words can hurt (as in “calling names”) or [...]
3 Reasons Why Your Clinic Should Accelerate Telehealth Adoption
By now every clinic, health center, hospital or behavioral health agency has at a minimum dipped their toe into telehealth and plenty of clinical services (most prominently behavioral health) [...]
Telehealth and the 7 Thworfs
Two years after the Covid-19 health crisis, telehealth is experiencing a renaissance in the sense that many healthcare organizations are now realizing that telehealth is not merely stop gap [...]
5 Reasons Why Your Clinicians (Still) Don’t Like Telehealth
Despite the fact that Covid-19 demonstrated the feasibility and value of telehealth, the majority of clinicians — especially in smaller organizations, such as health centers or rural health systems [...]
The 10-fold Return on Mastering Webside Manners (Part 3)
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 10-fold Return on Mastering Webside Manners (Part 2)
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 [...]
The 10-fold Return on Mastering Webside Manners (Part 1)
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 [...]
Why Physicians Don’t Like Being on Camera
All Great Truths begin as Blasphemies.~George Bernard ShawBlasphemous Telehealth Secrets, Part 1While the adoption of telehealth did skyrocket during the first months of the Covid-19 health crisis (as high as [...]
Why Measure Virtual Care Performance?
You can’t manage what you don’t measure. — Peter Drucker Over the past weeks I’ve shared a lot of pragmatic advice on how to measure telehealth performance to assess [...]
Are you still using Telehealth Pilots?
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 for [...]
Telehealth: Alive & Kicking
Quite a few clinicians and healthcare leaders in organizations that were not engaged in telehealth prior to the Covid-19 health crisis still hold on to the notion that telehealth was [...]
A Telehealth Strategy Gap Analysis
Strategy is one of those business concepts that either gets you excited or leaves you irritated because it is so overused. Even the picture for this article is somewhat a [...]