Change Project: Telehealth Plan and Project Management

Using the below information, submit your change management plan for Step 1: Creating a sense of urgency. The leadership team of a hospital is interested in creating a telehealth platform. The leadership team must describe the opportunity in terms that appeals to employees hearts and heads in order to raise a large, urgent army of supporters. Use at least one scholarly article in addition to those below. The article must be within the last five years and include the doi on the reference page. Must use in-text apa citations, as well. If citing using quotations, the in-text citation must include the page number.

To begin the Telehealth Project, the first step will be to create a sense of urgency (Small et al., 2016). Questions that must be answered are: Why telehealth? Why now? Continued healthcare access to care (transportation, finance, clinic availability) (Vallabhhan et al., 2020) combined with technological advances, patient satisfaction and inclusivity of telehealth reimbursement from insurance providers (Ellimoottil et al., 2018) has provided an opportune time to develop and initiate Telehealth services.

Ellimoottil, C., An, L., Moyer, M., Sossong, S., & Hollander, J. E. (2018). Challenges and opportunities faced by large health systems implementing telehealth. Health Affairs, 37(12), 1955-1959.
doi:http://dx.doi.org.ju.idm.oclc.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05099

Small, A. , Gist, D. , Souza, D. , Dalton, J. , Magny-Normilus, C. & David, D. (2016). Using Kotter’s Change Model for Implementing Bedside Handoff. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 31(4), 304309. doi: 10.1097/NCQ.0000000000000212.

Vallabhan, M. K., Jimenez, E. Y., McCauley, G., Kong, A. S., & Adolescent Health: Transforming Risk to Wellness San Diego CA 20200311-20200314. (2020). 140. early lessons learned from implementing telehealth in rural school based health centers. Journal of Adolescent Health, 66(2), 72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2019.11.143