teleInfectious Disease

Access TeleCare physicians detected the first confirmed case of West Nile virus in a West Texas town, resulting in a positive patient outcome and alerting local health authorities to enhance community-wide messaging efforts and preparedness.

A 300-bed hospital in Louisiana was experiencing high hospitalist turnover and a shortage of infectious disease subspecialists, impacting its ability to care for patients with complex needs. That’s when they turned to Access TeleCare.  

A morbidly obese patient suffering from diabetes, asthma, and hypertension entered their local Texas hospital’s emergency department with chest pain, intractable nausea and vomiting, and a productive cough. Within minutes an Access TeleCare pulmonologist and an Access TeleCare infectious disease specialist were coordinating care with on-site teams in [...]

When rural hospitals implement telemedicine, they typically have one, possibly two, service lines. This hospital in rural Texas has eight.

Dr. Jade Le, Access TeleCare’s chief of infectious disease, discusses the impact of Access TeleCare’s teleInfectious Disease programs.

Our telemedicine antibiotic stewardship program can be implemented in all hospitals, even those without in-house or on-site infectious disease specialists. These programs: – Reduce hospital pharmacy expenditures related to antibiotic prescriptions – the number one spend in hospital pharmacy. – Achieve clinical [...]

Access TeleCare puts board-certified infectious disease specialists in hospitals and clinics across the country for diagnosis, treatment, and consultation.

Our telemedicine antibiotic stewardship program can be implemented in all hospitals, even those without in-house or on-site infectious disease specialists.

Our infectious disease specialists helped one hospital reduce what was initially diagnosed by the on-site care team as a six-week treatment plan into one that lasted just a few days.