Key Points
- Access TeleCare hospitalist telemedicine delivers efficient surge coverage, filling gaps when capacity is needed and reducing costs when it isn’t .
- Telemedicine hospitalists free on-site specialists to spend more time diagnosing and caring for complex cases and less time assessing patients in overcrowded emergency departments.
- Hospitalist telemedicine enhances patient care through integration between collaborative and expert teleHospitalists working closely with on-site care teams.
Access TeleCare’s hospitalist telemedicine program is the ideal solution for forward-thinking hospital leaders seeking to boost care capacity without sacrificing flexibility.
Telemedicine Delivers Capacity When It’s Needed, Cost-Savings When It’s Not
Telemedicine enables hospitals to more efficiently boost capacity the moment it’s needed, while avoiding the high costs typically associated with hiring in-person locum tenens or nighttime providers.
With Access TeleCare’s hospitalist telemedicine programs, hospitals can add the capacity they need at the right time, with programs ranging from 24/7, full-time coverage to nighttime coverage, cross coverage, and on-call support. Telemedicine creates flexibility for hospitals to quickly respond to changing coverage needs and surges in demand in real time, with hospitalists available in minutes anywhere in the hospital. The same benefits of telemedicine that enable hospitals to quickly fill coverage gaps also allow hospitals to enjoy cost-savings when those gaps are filled or capacity needs decrease. No matter how rapidly or often capacity needs change, telemedicine frees hospitals from excess hiring costs associated with overstaffing in-person providers.
Telemedicine Frees up Your On-Site Care Specialists
Hospitalist telemedicine programs don’t just benefit on-site hospitalists and patients. With the ability to quickly see and assess patients in the ED and manage inpatient care via telemedicine, the on-site specialists gain capacity to focus on patients most in need of their expertise.
In addition to ED boarding, our hospitalists support nurses and staff in all aspects of inpatient care. Our hospitalists conduct initial assessments and testing, collaborate with on-site teams on care plans and treatment recommendations, and provide direct care for patients and their families – further boosting capacity for your most experienced physicians to see and treat more patients.
“Our teleHospitalists aren’t just equipped to deliver clinically excellent care that drives positive outcomes for patients,” said Saurin Patel, M.D., Access TeleCare’s chief of hospitalist medicine and emerging service lines. “They’re also excellent caregivers focused on providing great care experiences for patients and their families.”
From admission to the bedside to discharge planning, Access TeleCare’s hospitalists are ready to quickly boost your care teams’ capacity and capabilities. Like every Access TeleCare program, our hospitalists function as full members of your care teams, working within your teams’ existing workflows and native EMR to make implementation frictionless and make telemedicine sustainable for virtually any hospital.
Contact us to learn more about our hospitalist telemedicine programs.
