Modern Healthcare May 25, 2019
Jessica Kim Cohen, Matthew Weinstock

It’s time to give healthcare’s outdated terminology an update, according to health system CEOs. That’s particularly true when it comes to telemedicine.

“We don’t talk about tele-banking,” said Dr. Stephen Klasko, CEO of Jefferson Health and president of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, paraphrasing a conversation he had with former Apple CEO John Sculley. “It’s just that 90% of banking used to be done at the bank,” and now it’s “90% being done at home.”

Instead of viewing telemedicine as a new technology project, health systems should think of it as a care-delivery method and component of a broader shift toward “healthcare at home,” Klasko said.

The shift—also known as hospital at home—would allow patients...

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Topics: Apps, Digital Health, Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, Home, mHealth, Patient / Consumer, Physician, Provider, Technology, Telehealth, Trends, Wearables
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