Specialty Telehealth Business Dynamics

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.  We talk about the cost of locum tenens specialists and those costs 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.

If you want an understanding of specialty telehealth and the business dynamics at play, you’ll enjoy this interview with John Kalix, CEO at SOC Telemed.

Learn more about SOC Telemed: https://www.soctelemed.com/

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About the author

John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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