A look behind the decision-making processes and strategic thinking that need to happen before implementing a telehealth program - from the Telehealth Failures & Secrets To Success Conference:
vsee.com/telehealth-failures-conference
4. The Story
Our competitor started web-based urgent care visits.
We should do that too.
It’s kind of like urgent care, right?
Have the ER guy do it.
But wait, we’re better at complex care.
Maybe we should do tele-consult instead.
Have the transfer center guy do it.
18. The Takeaways
• Start from strategy, THEN apply the tools/tactics.
• Identify the value to each constituency, and lever that.
• Use technology to smooth demand in space and time.
• Lever organizational competencies.
• Deploy flexible platforms to meet changing demands.
• Scalability not only in size, but in horizontal and vertical
integration as well.
• Keep the experience simple.
Milton- A startup should have 100 experiments
Deploy, experiment, iterate
Milton wanted some discussion of my theory of disruption, but we only have 20min, and this symposium is focused on our pitfalls and failures.
So here’s the story, and post mortem on our journey into one telehealth deployment that resulted in my organization choosing VSee as a vendor.
Why me, why the EM guy?
I don’t mean the why like Simon Sinic. I mean the why for your organization to do telehealth.
When leaders think of telehealth, they tend to think about with the endpoint in mind.
But each of these, and others, are tools, or at best tactics
We use a six pillar cascading strategy matrix
IN out growth pillar, we may have “Increase access for New to Cooper visits”
I don’t mean the why like Simon Sinic. I mean the why for your organization to do telehealth.
When leaders think of telehealth, they tend to think about with the endpoint in mind.
But each of these, and others, are tools, or at best tactics
We use a six pillar cascading strategy matrix
IN out growth pillar, we may have “Increase access for New to Cooper visits”
Could be service oriented, strategy of increasing access to new patients, tactic may be tele-urgent care
Could be growth oriented, increase complex case volume, add tele-consult to drive increased referral volume
We were a bit of the bright shiny object, it was sexy to talk about telehealth, so we embarked
The squirrel is a bit more problematic in that it is often not born of the tool but of the latest fire
Hammer in search of the nail is the shiny object that you went and bought but are not sure what to do with, but may find a good nail
Hammer to fix a watch is is infrastruct that you acquired but then deployed in a poor way
Place and time
Joke about time/space
Knowledge work and the disruption or value of separating knowledge work (or work in general) in space and or time
Tele-anything or asynchronous anything
Another way to lower barrier to entry, a way to “pilot”, a way to bring value by increasing utilization or load balancing work
While we wanted more new patients, we wanted the right new patients.
Also, in the sea of new tele-medicine offerings, my come to our site for tele-medicine
Certainly consider if you can bill, but also consider downstream revue and cost savings wrt smoothing
Don’t adopt a system that doesn’t take advantage of your core competencies.
What is the tool, the”what” I need to achieve this “why”
Smoothing of work and resource utilization
Lever the existing competencies in your organization
Flexibility if platform and process
Scalability of platform and process
Simplicity, especially of the user interface, ease of entry, no barriers.
Smoothing of work and resource utilization
Lever the existing competencies in your organization
Flexibility if platform and process
Scalability of platform and process
Simplicity, especially of the user interface, ease of entry, no barriers.
Ad hoc providers, easy provisioning
What if a referral source is not already working with you, then not on Epic provider portal, so has many provisioning steps to start a one-off communication
Handle many calls
Roll out easily to new providers(consultants) on a small scale
Hand off between consultants
Can you use the platform to provide secure team communication within the vertical of thehospital?
We deployed with a 27 question form to start the encounter
How about just one button
Alternatively, within Epic –more step to instantiate a session. Is the referring provider even on the portal already. Later drive channel choice by adding value to you preferred channel. For example, if I go through Epic portal, I can get immediate feedback on my patients.