Is 2019 The Year Of The Telehealth Tipping Point?
Since our recent OPEN MINDS Technology & Informatics Institute, I've been thinking—will the coming year bring us the "telehealth tipping point?" The "tipping point" is, by definition, a critical point in a situation beyond which a significant and often unstoppable change takes place. Malcolm Gladwell, the new father of the "tipping point" concept (see The Tipping Point Reading Guide), wrote that "All kinds of high-tech products fail, never making it beyond the Early Adopters, because companies fail to transform an idea that makes perfect sense to an Early Adopter to one that makes perfect sense to a . . .