The Current State of Telehealth and the Future of Healthcare

Bob Crutchfield, CEO of TeleHealth Solutions, joins Health Professional Radio and examines the current state of telehealth on Health Professional Radio. Here he explores the paradigm shift in healthcare delivery during the pandemic and elaborates on his view on the new healthcare delivery model, which is becoming a more proactive, home-based care movement. The mission of TeleHealth Solution today is to close gaps in access to care where patients are the most vulnerable and exposed and need care the most. We’re concentrating on the post-acute skilled nursing facility space as well as critical access hospitals in rural communities. 

Before Covid, telehealth was a subscription-based model, particularly in the areas we work in, the rural-acute markets, and the skilled nursing facilities. The facilities had an alternative care provider that they could access when they needed it most. This was generally  after a patient had an episodic event where they had declined to the state that we were brought in, at the last minute to try to treat that patient in place.