Our TeleHealth Service Lines include the following:
Outpatient Virtual Visits (formerly TeleSpecialty)
Outpatient Virtual Visits connect patients and health care providers to our specialists via scheduled outpatient TeleHealth visits. Outpatient Virtual Visits increase access to specialty care services for patients located in rural or underserved areas and improves the patient experience via more convenient access to specialty care with reduced travel. Outpatient Virtual Visit services are currently offered, including specialty clinic appointments, direct-to-patient home visits, and inpatient consultations.
TeleEmergency
TeleEmergency provides a board-certified emergency medicine physician and an experienced emergency nurse to join the bedside team, on-demand, 24/7. Using high-quality, two-way audio-video communication, the TeleEmergency team assists by whatever means requested, including nursing documentation, direct patient care, consultation, the second set of eyes, assistance with transfer coordination, acceptance, and/or transport.
TeleICN
TeleICN allows our neonatologists to join your bedside team to serve the needs of you and your patients for a wide variety of diagnoses. Some babies require a higher level of care as they adjust to life outside of the mother’s body. The 24/7 support of ICN services help keep patients and families closer to home by supporting clinical decision-making and providing expert evaluations and recommendations. If a transfer is necessary, our specialized ICN team will assist in transporting that patient.
TeleICU
TeleICU provides experienced intensive care physicians and critical care nurses to augment, not replace, the bedside team. In addition, the service provides behind-the-scenes, high-level monitoring, and sophisticated analytical algorithms to identify concerning trends before patient deterioration. Not only does this result in decreased mortality and length of stay, but it also allows more patients to get their ICU care close to home.
TeleNeurology
TeleNeurology provides board-certified neurologists on-demand 24/7 for Emergency Department and inpatient consultations. This includes not an only stroke (including evaluation and recommendations and assistance with tPA administration) but also assistance with other adult neurologic emergencies. This allows a lower-cost coverage option for hospitals with limited or no neurologist access, improved tPA administration rates, and decreased transfers.
TelePharmacy
TelePharmacy connects hospitals to a team of dedicated pharmacists who can provide medication order review and processing as well as clinical consultation, allowing hospitals to optimize their internal staffing while remaining compliant with order review regulations. TelePharmacy improves medication efficacy, patient safety, and staff satisfaction while supporting the integration of pharmacy delivery within hospital systems and/or regions, including protocols and order sets.
TelePsychiatry
TelePsychiatry enables prompt assessment and management of patients in the Emergency Department or inpatient setting for locations that do not have around-the-clock psychiatric coverage. Board-certified psychiatrists provide 24/7, on-demand assessments, including expedited admit vs. discharge decisions, early management recommendations, and assistance with medication management while improving the ultimate patient trajectory.
TeleUrgent Care
TeleUrgent Care provides back-up, support, and consultation to Urgent Care providers by emergency medicine physicians via high-definition, two-way audio-video conferencing. TeleUrgent Care physician input can include general recommendations, real-time patient assessments, second opinions, advice regarding the need and timing of additional emergent or urgent evaluations, review of radiographic images, and assistance with volume surges.
Learn more
To learn more about our TeleHealth services, contact the Connected Care and Center for TeleHealth.