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Telemedicine allows rural hospitals like Piggott Health System to transform the community’s expectations, and other hospitals across the country are embracing telemedicine and accelerating new ideas of value in small market health care. One of those hospitals is Sullivan County Community [...]
When local care teams lack specialty medical resources, delays in care from transferring a patient increase risk and put patient outcomes in the balance, but it can also be a demoralizing experience with travel to far away, unfamiliar care facilities. [...]
For some small-town hospitals, access to specialists has become a new standard where the community has realized the value of a telemedicine investment. For Piggott Health System, a 25-bed critical access hospital located in rural northeast Arkansas, telemedicine changes what is [...]
Access TeleCare’s teleMaternal-Fetal Medicine specialists work with hospitals, outpatient maternity providers, and imaging centers to support patients with high-risk pregnancies and improve ultrasound interpretation and fetal anomaly detection. Access TeleCare teleMaternal-Fetal Medicine programs: Increase local deliveries: Through immediate access to board-certified maternal-fetal [...]
When something is missed on an obstetrical ultrasound, patients can experience delays in care that may have profound effects on the health and outcome of their pregnancy. Access TeleCare’s teleMaternal-fetal medicine specialists consistently identify abnormalities in 6% of ultrasounds deemed “normal” by [...]
For the first time in almost 10 years, new guidance has been issued on the use of antibiotics after surgery. In a recently published report, antibiotic guidance now calls for physicians to cease the use of antibiotic prophylaxis immediately following surgery. The [...]
As a 5.2 percent decrease in OB-GYN residency applicants threatens to worsen the existing OB-GYN shortage (as reported by the Association of American Medical Colleges), telemedicine is an essential component to minimizing access to care barriers for pregnant patients in underserved communities. [...]
Many communities Access TeleCare operates in lack any neurological care presence, which creates a tremendous opportunity for teleNeurologists not only to provide excellent care for patients, but also to guide hospitals and their staff through the development of their neurological care [...]
Last year patients in Vermont waited the longest to see nephrologists, of all the specialties, with a median wait time of 100 days. This data came from a 2022 survey and report from multiple Vermont state agencies. It also found long wait [...]