Keeping critically ill patients locally is a priority for every hospital, and Access TeleCare’s telePulmonary and critical care specialists make it possible. Access TeleCare’s hospital partners can depend on world-class physicians who are available 24/7, empowering on-site ICU staff at the bedside [...]
For many hospitals, surgeries, especially complex surgeries, require patient transfers to a higher-level facility because of limited local availability of critical care specialists. By delivering 24/7 access to critical care specialists via telemedicine, Access TeleCare makes complex post-surgical care possible. Dedicated pulmonary [...]
Access TeleCare’s infectious disease specialists turned what was initially diagnosed as a six-week hospital stay into one that lasted just a few days. When an elderly man from Massachusetts contracted an infection while on vacation in South Carolina, the local care [...]
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 [...]
For many hospitals, the addition of a telemedicine program can represent a significant adjustment in operations, for both staff and patients. “We’re changing the models of care in an industry that is historically resistant to change,” said Access TeleCare president/CEO Chris [...]
A hospital’s ability to quickly implement specialty telemedicine programs should not be impacted by delays in the licensing process for teleSpecialists. Access TeleCare ensures new physicians acquire the appropriate medical licenses quickly so hospital partners can begin delivering needed specialty care [...]
Access TeleCare's telemedicine service lines improves patients’ lives through timely access to specialty care, and for many rural communities, that means ensuring access to teleSpecialists in places where network connectivity and reliability can be a challenge. “For rural health care providers, [...]
President/CEO Chris Gallagher, M.D., shares Access TeleCare’s origins and how it became the nation’s largest acute care specialty telemedicine provider. More than 20 years ago, Access TeleCare President/CEO Chris Gallagher, M.D. saw telemedicine’s revolutionary impact in action in a rural hospital [...]
The pressures on rural hospitals are certainly immense, and their financial vulnerabilities are significant. But telemedicine can help. Telemedicine isn’t a panacea, but it can be an effective treatment for what ails rural health care. Chris Gallagher, M.D., CEO of Access TeleCare [...]
Chris Gallagher, M.D., CEO of Access TeleCare discusses telePsychiatry's impact on the behavioral health crisis in an article published by the American Telemedicine Association: The COVID-19 pandemic created not just a global public health crisis but a behavioral health crisis as well, [...]
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