The month of April gave us 5 Tuesdays and Telehealth Tuesday covered a broad range of topics from a Bill of Rights to Camera Phobia.

The common theme though, if you hadn’t picked up on it yet, is the holy grail of telehealth success: Creating Clinician Engagement.

While counselors, psychologists, and psychiatrists have broadly embraced telehealth, primary care practitioners (especially in community health centers) are significantly more reluctant to “delivering care at a distance” citing all kinds of excuses to hide, in essence, their uneasiness with practicing their craft via video.

And with that attitude they are pretty much alone – urgent care physicians are increasingly offering virtual visits and access to specialty care via telemedicine has been offered by the academic medical centers since the mid 1990s.

But for every ailment there is a cure and if you are challenged with a low adoption rate of telehealth among your primary care clinicians, this set of articles should give you some good guidance.

Of course you can also always set up a call with me to discuss the best approach to overcome your care team’s objections to telehealth.

Enjoy your readings!

The Virtual Care Bill of Patients’ Rights

Setting the Telehealth Keystone: Clinician Engagement

This is the first in a series of articles on engaging clinicians in the delivery of care at a distance. Without Clinician Engagement, there can be no patient engagement, so getting this right is paramount to quality care.

Improving Clinician Satisfaction through Telehealth

Why Physicians Don’t Like Being on Camera