Telehealth Tuesday Articles

We modern humans often have a tendency to make things more complicated and are often hoping for miracle cures or silver bullets. Take weight loss as an example. Most [...]

Paradigms are useful tools in our modern lives. They help us to make sense of the world around us much more easily. Often, paradigms represent the tried and true — [...]

Many in healthcare still see telehealth primarily as a technology. That is not surprising, since the name “telehealth” invokes a first association with other technologies that have advanced human [...]

Over the past two years I have talked about telehealth with leaders at over 30 community health centers, rural health clinics, behavioral health clinics, and health systems. Based on [...]

The most critical prerequisite to the successful delivery of great care via telehealth are well-designed, well-deployed workflows. The delivery of excellent telehealth that provides a great experience for patients [...]

Federally Qualified Health Centers hold a special status in the US healthcare system. As part of the healthcare “safety net”, FQHCs offer healthcare to anyone seeking care, regardless of [...]

Prior to 2020, the annual event of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) was the flagship gathering, the national telehealth conference to see and be seen. With the Covid-19 health [...]

Now that we’re almost past the Covid-19 health crisis, attention is expanding from telehealth, telemedicine, and virtual care to the larger scope of digital health. In a recent survey, [...]

I am writing these lines to you from the Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center (MATRC) Summit in Charlotte, NC. Instead of my usual article I’d like to share this week [...]

For about 15 years now, HRSA has provided 3-year grants to about a dozen organizations around the nation to serve as regional Telehealth Resource Centers, to assist healthcare organizations [...]

I love working with physicians and advocating on their behalf so they can practice “on top of their license”, doing only the things that only they can do. Many are [...]

In the spring of 2020, out of necessity to continue to provide access to care, the Covid-19 health crisis put telehealth into the spotlight, forcing every clinic to figure out [...]

If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll probably end up somewhere else. — Yogi Berra During the Covid-19 health crisis many organizations hastily launched telehealth. For many it [...]

In the 2000s people would remember vividly where they were on 9/11/2001 when the news broke of the attack on the Twin Towers in New York City. In the 2020s [...]

In March of 2020, the Covid-19 health crisis rapidly increased the healthcare-wide adoption of telehealth as an alternative care delivery modality. But in most clinics and health centers who [...]

When I think of dentistry I have images of big syringes with mouth-numbing (and mind-numbing) tinctures inside. I hear noises of drills and feel the anticipation of pain that [...]

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

During the height of the Covid-19 health crisis in the spring of 2020, the use of telehealth to deliver care skyrocketed into Himalayan altitudes. In 2020, Medicare fee-for-service telehealth [...]

As many organizations are emerging from the latest wave of Covid (this time in the form of Omicron), healthcare leaders must focus their attention on how to best position [...]

Imagine it is Valentine’s day and instead of heading to town to your favorite upscale Italian restaurant you decide to stay in and create a super-romantic evening with a [...]

Telehealth, in its essence, is the ability to deliver healthcare at a distance. It is the concept of providing an equivalent or even better level of care regardless of [...]

Even before the onset of the Covid-19 health crisis, healthcare leaders did not have it easy — physician burnout and physician suicide, exploding cost, a seemingly free-for-all growth of [...]

For decades, our traditional healthcare system has relied on patients coming into the physician office to receive their care. Many of the workflows we know today were designed about [...]

Marketing Your Telehealth Services to Your Community Marketing is first and foremost a strategy. Marketing itself is not advertising and cold-calling, glossy brochures and sweepstakes, although all of those [...]