Hospitals faced with challenges in ICU staffing often compare two virtual options: bunker model vs. teleICU. What are the differences between the bunker model and teleICU, and how should hospitals compare them depending on use cases? This blog addresses the many factors [...]
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 [...]
It can be easy to forget, considering all the COVID-related information deluging us daily, but the entirety of the U.S. pandemic response came down to ICU statistics. Phrases like “flatten the curve” and “slow the spread” became ubiquitous in March and April [...]
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 [...]
Every time police officers are called on to respond to a mental health emergency, there is a good chance they will have to deal with the consequences of a long series of previous failures: societal failures, regulatory failures, and failures of our [...]
Most of us have seen graphs showing the dramatic telehealth growth as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic: a massive surge in March and April of 2020, followed by a moderate plunge, and finally a tapering off. Here’s what it looks like: [...]
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 [...]
By Traci Richards, Ph. D., Manager of Behavioral Health Services, Chesapeake Regional Healthcare Chesapeake Regional Medical Center scales up telePsychiatry during the pandemic and finds some care delivery best practices along the way Chesapeake Regional Medical Center has collaborated with Access TeleCare for on-demand access to board-certified psychiatrists since 2014. [...]
By Dr. John Kenny I first started noticing it in February. We got more calls, more cases while on shift, and more text messages asking us to take cases while off shift. After all, that's what telePsychiatry does: it adjusts to meet [...]
The challenge of cost-effective ICU staffing is easy to sum up: how to match high variability in patient acuity and volume with the fixed costs of staffing, space, and equipment to care for those patients. Easy to sum up—yet difficult to address. [...]
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