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Making Up Time Lost to Prehospital Delays with 24/7 TeleStroke Coverage

2024-08-14T10:14:41-05:00June 27, 2024|

Key Points on Overcoming Prehospital Stroke Delays with Telemedicine Over half of patients in a recent study arrived at the hospital more than two hours after the onset of stroke symptoms. Prehospital delays create additional challenges for time-sensitive stroke care. Access [...]

How a Single Telemedicine Program Unlocks Seamless Growth & Expansion

2024-08-14T11:07:35-05:00June 24, 2024|

For hospitals seeking long-term solutions to meet their community’s specialty care needs, adding just one Access TeleCare telemedicine program can be the catalyst for rapid and organic expansion into specialty services that would otherwise be unfeasible without virtual care. Once one Access [...]

Telemedicine Enhances Complex Substance Abuse Care for Emergency Departments

2024-07-01T11:14:54-05:00June 21, 2024|

Arun Gopal, M.D., national medical director of outpatient care and consultation-liaison telePsychiatry at Access TeleCare, spoke with Behavioral Health Business about Access telemedicine’s critical role in caring for patients with substance abuse disorders in emergency departments. Emergency rooms are the front line [...]

Telemedicine: A Way Forward for Rural Hospitals

2024-06-11T17:11:00-05:00June 11, 2024|

Rural hospital leaders work tirelessly to find sustainable solutions to help meet their community’s care needs and address the significant financial challenges jeopardizing the future of rural health care. Access TeleCare’s telemedicine programs do both. Customizable telemedicine programs provide capacity and timely [...]

Behavioral Health Integration Through Telemedicine: Equipping Primary Care Providers on the Front Lines of Patient Care

2024-08-19T16:57:32-05:00June 7, 2024|

For primary care providers wanting to expand their capacity to care for their patients’ behavioral health care needs, an integrated telemedicine solution can be the answer. With 60 to 80 percent of primary care visits including a behavioral health component, patients [...]

Tackling the Opioid Epidemic with Continuous Patient Care Through Telemedicine

2024-06-11T17:11:05-05:00June 5, 2024|

Telemedicine is transforming how rural communities address the opioid epidemic. The lack of access to continuous care for chronic conditions such as opioid use disorder (OUD) can leave rural hospitals without a reliable solution to treat these chronic conditions that often demand [...]

The Risk of Stroke is Never Zero: Warning Signs, Preventive Measures, and the Importance of Timely Care Intervention

2024-10-29T09:36:05-05:00June 3, 2024|

Public education directed at consumers increases awareness of the signs and symptoms of a stroke, improving outcomes for those patients who get treatment faster. By coupling timelier intervention with improved access to a constrained supply of neurologists, Access TeleCare works with local [...]

Telemedicine is a Strategic Solution to Hospitals’ Most Pressing Challenges: Becker’s Healthcare Webinar

2024-07-01T11:15:13-05:00May 31, 2024|

Access TeleCare president/CEO Chris Gallagher, M.D. and UnityPoint Health interim chief medical officer Cate Ranheim, M.D. discussed telemedicine’s central role in shaping the future of health care delivery during a Becker’s Healthcare Webinar. Download the webinar now For more than two [...]

Bridging the Gap Between Physical and Behavioral Health Care with Consultation-Liaison telePsychiatry

2024-06-20T10:33:43-05:00May 30, 2024|

Access TeleCare Provider Spotlight Arun Gopal, M.D. Consultation-liaison telePsychiatrist Collaborative, multi-disciplinary teams solving difficult cases that straddle the line between physical and behavioral health care defines Access TeleCare’s consultation-liaison telePsychiatry programs. And those programs are powered by physicians like Dr. Gopal. [...]

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