General Telemedicine

Since 2004, Access TeleCare has been a visionary telemedicine pioneer. From our origins working with a handful of rural Texas hospitals to today being the nation’s largest acute specialty telemedicine provider, our journey has been one of vision, standard setting, and innovation. [...]

By Chris Gallagher, M.D. CEO, Access TeleCare What is the future of rural health care? That’s a question on the minds of many health care leaders. With more than 185 rural hospitals closing between 2005 and 2022 and an additional 600 at [...]

Jason Hallock, M.D., Chief Clinical Innovation Officer On-call and nighttime physician coverage are two of hospitals’ biggest costs. With the staffing needed to run a specialty program 24/7 and to cover emergencies of any kind, hospitals’ physician costs can quickly become unsustainable. [...]

By Jason Hallock, Chief Clinical Innovation Officer at Access TeleCare   The era of cheap money, at least in the digital health investment sector, is over. 2023 is not the same economic environment as 2022, 2021, or, for that matter, any time [...]

With re-introduction of the CONNECT for Health Act in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives earlier this month, Congress is demonstrating, post-pandemic, its strong interest and support for continuing the widespread implementation and use of telemedicine in both inpatient and outpatient [...]

Transferring patients from one hospital to another sounds simple. In today’s health care environment, however, with provider shortages and more patients with complex physical and behavioral needs, transferring patients can be a lengthy process, creating delays in accessing needed specialty care. A [...]

Hospitalists, in general, are the decathletes of the healthcare industry. They care for complicated hospitalized patients around-the-clock, coordinate care between different doctors, order and follow-up on tests, meet with patients’ family members, and deal with a multitude of problems as they arise. [...]