Making the Most of Telehealth; Promoting Health Equity

Welcome to this week’s edition of Healthcare Career Insights. This weekly roundup highlights healthcare career-related articles culled from across the Web to help you learn what’s next.

• Telehealth is “forever changing the healthcare landscape,” writes Samant Virk, MD, who shares insights about what physicians should be getting from a telehealth platform — Telehealth solutions: Top questions for physician practices to consider (Physicians Practice)
• How can hospitals and providers promote health equity? The American Hospital Association Institute for Diversity and Health Equity proposed 5 actions that institutions should consider — Listen. Learn. Act: Moving from discussions to solutions for diversity (HealtheCareers)
• With all the opportunity telehealth presents for clinicians, this mode of care also comes with a risk of fraud and misconduct. Here’s how to reduce the risks — Telehealth compliance programs avoid and mitigate risk (Medical Economics)
• One physician highlights how she achieved the perfect work-life balance by switching to locum tenens — Locums and motherhood: Time for career and family (Locumstory)

Lisa Grabl is president of the locum tenens division of CompHealth, the nation’s largest locum tenens physician staffing company and a leader in permanent and temporary allied healthcare staffing. Lisa has worked in healthcare staffing for more than 19 years.