SOC Telemed began providing teleNeurology consultations in 2004. As we built our telemedicine practice to include telePsychiatry and teleICU, we skinned our knees and learned a lot of valuable lessons. Our physicians, hospital partners, Consult Coordination Center, and quality team all provided feedback that helped us improve. Our ten lessons learned after over a million […]
It can be easy to forget, considering all the COVID-related information deluging us daily, but the entirety of the U.S. pandemic response came down to ICU statistics. Phrases like “flatten the curve” and “slow the spread” became ubiquitous in March and April of 2020, as New York City endured the country’s first deadly wave of […]
By Jason Hallock, MD I talk to many hospital leaders in my capacity as SOC’s Chief Medical Officer. Lately, there’s been a recurring theme: too many vendors—and confusion about what to do about it. I’ve spoken recently with health systems ranging from 20 hospital sites up to 100, and one said they have as many […]
Every time police officers are called on to respond to a mental health emergency, there is a good chance they will have to deal with the consequences of a long series of previous failures: societal failures, regulatory failures, and failures of our healthcare and behavioral health systems. In too many cases, these failures have tragic […]
Most of us have seen graphs showing the dramatic telehealth growth as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic: a massive surge in March and April of 2020, followed by a moderate plunge, and finally a tapering off. Here’s what it looks like: What most of us have not seen, however, is the surge in telehealth […]
By Mauricio Sirvent When the pandemic spread wildly in March of last year, hospitals around the world were suddenly stretched thin. In an ideal world, the pandemic would have been the perfect opportunity to deploy an acute care telemedicine solution; to meet the overwhelming demand for emergency care with better incoming patient assessments, access to […]
