General Telemedicine

Our 2021 Access TeleCare blog focused on the status of the acute telemedicine practice in the era of COVID-19 and beyond. Access TeleCare physicians and partners offered their expertise and advice throughout the year. Let’s take a look back… Key Trends and […]

By Sina Haeri, MD I like to start my presentations to health care groups by pointing out that telemedicine in the care of pregnant women is nothing new. We’ve been doing virtual prenatal visits for years. And, we’ve had at-home monitoring of […]

By Jason Hallock, MD I have a gut check question for you: what percentage of U.S. healthcare could be delivered virtually? Ten percent? Twenty-five? What about 90 percent? This is, in effect, the multi-billion dollar question for U.S. healthcare in a post-COVID […]

By Punag Divanji, MD, FACC TeleCardiology version 1.0 began from the need to reduce mortality rates from high-risk cardiovascular disease, which remains the leading cause of death in the U.S. across nearly every demographic group. Just over 900,000 people die from cardiovascular […]

Sina Haeri, MD, MHSA, is Vice President, Women & Children’s Health and Chief of Maternal-Fetal Medicine for Access Physicians, a division of Access TeleCare. He shares his latest research project and explains how teleMaternal-Fetal Medicine (teleMFM) specialists support mothers, babies, and hospitals. […]

Access TeleCare 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]