acute care telemedicine

By Sina Haeri, MD I like to start my presentations to health care groups by pointing out that telemedicine in the care of pregnant women is nothing new. We’ve been doing virtual prenatal visits for years. And, we’ve had at-home monitoring of […]

By Jason Hallock, MD I have a gut check question for you: what percentage of U.S. healthcare could be delivered virtually? Ten percent? Twenty-five? What about 90 percent? This is, in effect, the multi-billion dollar question for U.S. healthcare in a post-COVID […]

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 […]

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 […]

With the rapidly escalating COVID-19 cases in the U.S., hospitals are overwhelmed with more than 100,000 patients, much higher than in March 2020 when this blog was originally published as How to Mobilize Remote Providers During COVID-19. The information shared by Dr. […]

By Dr. Jason Hallock It’s March 2020: millions of businesses and their employees, school systems and their students, and healthcare providers and their patients, are figuring out how to go virtual. Now imagine for a moment if, in order to accomplish that […]

By Jason Hallock, MD Imagine if we invested the same amount of time, energy, and money in building out our virtual care delivery as we have in building out our hospitals, our outpatient centers, and our offices? I’ll come back to that […]

Dr. Jason Hallock, SOC Telemed’s chief medical officer, recently took part in a radio and satellite media tour to raise awareness and explain the importance of telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking to broadcast stations across the country, here are some of […]

The Access TeleCare (SOC) telemedicine platform, Telemed IQ, has been implemented in several emergency situations. During Hurricane Florence in 2018, Onslow Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, NC was surrounded by water and clinicians couldn’t access the hospital to care for patients. Then the […]

Dr. Jason Hallock, Chief Medical Officer, Access TeleCare The Corona virus has officially spread to every state. Hospitals have been preparing for this eventuality for weeks, moving up or postponing elective surgeries, creating a triage response team and protocols, and planning where […]