Specialty Telehealth Business Dynamics
Episode 122 of the Healthcare IT Today Interviews podcast, hosted by John Lynn, titled "Specialty Telehealth Business Dynamics" was published on July 1, 2021 and runs 27 minutes.
July 1, 2021 ·27m · Healthcare IT Today Interviews
Summary
If you’ve followed Healthcare IT Today and our Health IT Interviews podcast, you know it’s pretty rare that I have the same guest on the show and when I do it’s usually a year or a half dozen years apart. However, when we finished recording the episode “What Makes Specialty Acute Care Telehealth Different?” with John Kalix, CEO at SOC Telemed, we stumbled upon a topic that I felt deserved another episode. That topic was a look at the various Business Dynamics associated with Specialty Telehealth. In this episode we talk about all the business dynamics for a hospital or health system that might be looking at whether they should have a specialists in house and when they should consider using a specialty specific telehealth option. Does the size of the organization matter? Does the “supply” of a certain specialist influence the decision? Are there some specialties that are better for this than others? Plus, we also dive into the details around the costs of a telehealth specialist versus one in house. Plus, we talk about the cost of locum tenens specialists and those cost as compared with a telehealth specialist. What’s the ROI model to consider? Finally, we talk about the pros and cons of the experience a specialty doctor will have doing telehealth vs in-person. Learn more about SOC Telemed: https://www.soctelemed.com/ Find more great health IT content: https://www.healthcareittoday.com/
Episode Description
If you’ve followed Healthcare IT Today and our Health IT Interviews podcast, you know it’s pretty rare that I have the same guest on the show and when I do it’s usually a year or a half dozen years apart. However, when we finished recording the episode “What Makes Specialty Acute Care Telehealth Different?” with John Kalix, CEO at SOC Telemed, we stumbled upon a topic that I felt deserved another episode. That topic was a look at the various Business Dynamics associated with Specialty Telehealth.
In this episode we talk about all the business dynamics for a hospital or health system that might be looking at whether they should have a specialists in house and when they should consider using a specialty specific telehealth option. Does the size of the organization matter? Does the “supply” of a certain specialist influence the decision? Are there some specialties that are better for this than others?
Plus, we also dive into the details around the costs of a telehealth specialist versus one in house. Plus, we talk about the cost of locum tenens specialists and those cost as compared with a telehealth specialist. What’s the ROI model to consider? Finally, we talk about the pros and cons of the experience a specialty doctor will have doing telehealth vs in-person.
Learn more about SOC Telemed: https://www.soctelemed.com/
Find more great health IT content: https://www.healthcareittoday.com/
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