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.
Reactions from Telehealth Tuesday Readers
What does an AI think about Telehealth?
Many Telehealth Tuesday readers have in recent months pointed me towards ChatGPT (launched in November 2022) and invited me to assess its relationship with or value [...]
Innovation in Healthcare:
Clinician Engagement for Digital Health Adoption
The problem in Healthcare is not the lack of innovation. It is the slow pace of innovation adoption. I don’t think I can repeat this [...]
Innovation in Healthcare:
Successful Innovation Implementation
In the world of digital health innovation, it is not sufficient to just have a great solution that works. It is equally important to ensure that the solution is [...]
Innovation in Healthcare:
Implementing Digital Health Solutions
The avalanche of digital health innovation caused by an investment of $100B dollars over the past decade ($60B just in 2020-2022) may be slowing down due to a slowdown [...]
When Fee-for-Service is Dead: Telehealth, the Clinical Savior
Quick, what do you think are the biggest obstacles to a more widespread adoption of telehealth by clinicians? Here are a few common wisdom favorites: Technology 1: Clinicians don’t [...]
Innovation in Healthcare: From Idea to Validation
In a January 2023 article describing their take on 5 predictions for telehealth in 2023, the American Medical Association (AMA) promoted its recently published report: “Closing the Digital Health [...]
Best of Telehealth Tuesday 2022
Telehealth Tuesday was born in October 2019 out of the desire to share best practices and make the case for telehealth. In addition to our emailed newsletter (which each week [...]
Increasing the Value of Telehealth
The beginning of a New Year is always a good time for prophecies and predictions. This is especially valuable if they are rooted in reality, based on actual data. [...]
12 Gifts for Your Telehealth Program
The Covid-19 health crisis of 2020 showed many patients (a.k.a., modern healthcare consumers) and many clinicians how much care can be delivered at a distance (a.k.a. telehealth). While telehealth [...]
Managing Telehealth Performance with 4DX
In many healthcare organizations, telehealth is but one of many things its leadership team should pay attention to. But with nursing staffing shortages, physician burnout, and decreasing funding streams, [...]
Telehealth Training for Clinicians
Telehealth is first and foremost a clinical tool and to be successful and sustainable, telehealth optimization must focus on creating a stellar clinician experience. If you want grow and [...]
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 [...]
