Telehealth Tuesday Articles

Most if not all of Healthcare Delivery is a series of interconnected processes. From diagnosis to treatment, from prescriptions to incisions, from dressings to blessings — every part of the [...]

Many leaders see the wisdom in embracing “care at a distance” for their organization. Yet once they look at their clinician’s utilization data, they are often surprised about the [...]

“The Future is already here; it is just not evenly distributed.” — William Gibson Today’s Healthcare Leaders have a full plate of important and urgent priorities and many if not [...]

The end of a year and beginning of a new year are popular times to make predictions about the future. So with Telehealth Tuesday’s edition #222, here are my [...]

Happy 2024! As we close out 2023 and start afresh with 53 Telehealth Tuesdays in 2024, I wanted to start out with a "best of" Telehealth Tuesday 2023 in [...]

Most healthcare organizations jumped into telehealth in earnest during the Covid-19 health crisis — not to revolutionize care delivery, but rather to continue to serve the patient population during [...]

In last week’s article, I posed the question: How Mature is Your Telehealth Program? In today's Telehealth Tuesday column I’ll dive deeper into the first four levels of telehealth [...]

While Telehealth has been around since the mid 1990s, albeit mostly in academic medical centers, an overnight adoption of telehealth across virtually all specialties and with numerous modalities was [...]

Many of us, mostly in college, have come across the framework of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. To reach the highest level, the level of self-actualization, people first need to [...]

Over the past years, telehealth has proven itself to be a viable approach to delivering care safely and effectively in many cases, under many circumstances. While telehealth will never [...]

Marketing Your Telehealth Services to Your CommunityGood marketing is about understanding customers’ needs and offering solutions and services to satisfy their needs in a way that resonates with them.In essence, [...]

In last week’s Telehealth Tuesday article I posed the question:Is Telehealth Rocket Science? The answer?No, Telehealth is not Rocket Science. But getting clinicians to use telehealth well, is.To get clinicians [...]

No, Telehealth is not Rocket Science. But getting clinicians to use telehealth well, is. Let me explain… As many readers of my weekly column know, there’s much more to [...]

A couple of weeks ago Telehealth Tuesday celebrated its 4th birthday — over 200 articles on all things telehealth and digital health, from taxonomy to strategy, from optimization to [...]

A couple of weeks ago one of the telehealth trailblazers of the last 30 years, Dr. Joseph Kvedar, reflected on the blazed trail he’s been on thus far and [...]

Four years ago, on Tuesday, October 8, 2019, after returning from a Telehealth Conference in Vegas, I launched Telehealth Tuesday with 32 subscribers and a simple success metric: To publish [...]

With a systems engineering mindset I first look at the challenges at hand in the context of the larger system - what happens before, what happens after? Who else is [...]

For the longest time, physicians have been paid on a procedural basis: render a service, perform a task and get paid for it. Just like in the old horse and [...]

…and what to do about it. When your organization finally embraces telehealth, recognizing it as a critical strategic tool to give your “modern healthcare consumers” (a.k.a. patients) what they want [...]

While virtual care is becoming increasingly more ubiquitous — holding steady in primary care and continuing to grow in behavioral health — it is still often seen as merely [...]

Telehealth visits are often thought of as an alternative care delivery method when patients cannot easily come into the clinic due to transportation challenges, child care challenges, or because they [...]

Last week I had an interesting, enjoyable experience. When asking our 13-year old’s primary care provider for a referral to an allergist for her eczema and presumed heat rash, [...]

This week's Telehealth Tuesday article is based on Dr. Erkan Hassan's recent article on the same topic. Dr. Hassan is a member of the Ingenium Healthcare Advisors Consortium and [...]

This week's edition of Telehealth Tuesday is a guest post by my long-term collaborator and business partner Kathy Letendre. Her bi-weekly newsletter, Excellence Inspirations, is a treat for all [...]