Telehealth Tuesday Articles

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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.) [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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) [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]