Five Critical Areas to Consider Many hospitals have turned to telePsychiatry services as a way to assist the delivery of psychiatric evaluations to alleviate overcrowding in the emergency department, reduce Length-of-Stay (LOS) for patients needing consult and liaison psychiatry, or augment inpatient coverage as may be needed by hospitals. To find out how to choose […]
As patient visits transitioned from in-person to virtual during the pandemic, telemedicine cybersecurity became a top concern for many hospitals. In an industry that processes the most sensitive information about our lives, that is not surprising. The good news is that healthcare organizations can rely on HITRUST certification to confirm that their partners have implemented […]
By Dr. David Fedor I was a fellow when I did my first proning procedure. We assigned roles, we looked after the lines, tubes, and drains, we discussed proper communications, and then we flipped the patient. Unfortunately, my attending hadn’t prepared me for what can sometimes happen next. He had assumed, based on my knowledge […]
The five important aspects of acute care telemedicine that differentiate it from consumer telehealth start with a focus on workflows, according to John Kalix, chief executive officer for SOC Telemed. Kalix recently joined the founding editor of Healthcare IT Today, John Lynn, to discuss the unique role of acute care telemedicine in the growing telemedicine […]
By Clark Wells, Director of Physician Recruiting Telemedicine careers for physicians are becoming more popular. The growth in virtual physicians has come a long way over the past decade, but perhaps not so far and fast as over the past twelve months. The pandemic brought telemedicine into the homes and practices of millions of Americans […]
By Tamika Burrus, MD One of my first remote consults as a teleNeurologist involved a case where a psychiatry patient stated someone was talking to him through the television. The patient had had a stroke, seen incidentally on a scan the day before, but he also suffered from depression, and the on-site care team had […]
