Popular Demand Driving Telehealth to New Heights
By Dr. Nick van Terheyden aka Dr. Nick
Twitter: @drnic1
Host of Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist – #TheIncrementalist
On this episode I talked to Roy Schoenberg, MD, MPH (@RoySchoenberg), President and CEO at Amwell (@Amwell) a telemedicine company based out of Boston with one of the largest telehealth ecosystems in the world.
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Like me, Roy found his path through medicine and into technology launching a series of companies until founding Amwell around the time that technology and the internet were starting to bring widespread positive impacts to our world. We discuss the potential for technology to bring about real positive change in healthcare overcoming the early resistance and indeed over-optimism for what was originally possible.
Fast forward and Telemedicine is a native solution in healthcare with all systems delivering some form of remotely accessible care. As he describes it, it is just another “care setting” and simply an alternative place to interact with patients, driven by practical needs and thinking about what is best for the patient.
Listen in to hear where Roy sees Telehealth going, the “power of the people” to bring “by popular demand” the delivery of healthcare using every available means. As he describes it “the Telehealth train has left the station”, are you on board are watching it depart.
About the Show
For years Dr. Nick van Terheyden aka Dr. Nick, has served as a voice on the impact of new technologies on healthcare, earning a reputation as a leading authority on where the future of medicine is going. Combining powers of observation and real world experience, Dr. Nick has seen many predictions come true and makes the case that innovations in healthcare can be accomplished incrementally, not just by moonshot events. Tune in to hear Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist and his guests discuss what the future of healthcare looks like, how we will get there, and what it will take to improve healthcare for all.
This article was originally published on the Dr. Nick – The Incrementalist blog and is republished here with permission.