Neurology2024-09-23T14:54:14-05:00

World-Class teleNeurology

Access TeleCare is a leading provider of teleNeurology services and solutions to U.S. hospitals

Our experienced neurologists can provide coverage anywhere in your hospital, including emergent neurology and stroke care in your emergency department, neurohospitalists for inpatient care, and neurosurgery consultations.

Comprehensive Specialty Care for the Entire Spectrum of Neurological Conditions

With Access TeleCare’s emergent teleNeurology program, board-certified teleNeurologists are available to provide immediate acute stroke consultative services in emergency departments or inpatient settings, as well as management of other non-stroke emergencies. Our non-emergent team provides routine neurohospitalist consultative services and ensures appropriate follow up evaluations with continuity of care in the inpatient setting.

This technology-enabled care delivery model provides prompt neurological expertise that eliminates geographic barriers to care and supports the full continuum of inpatient and outpatient care.

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Impact of teleNeurology Services

435

teleNeurology programs

7 minutes

Median neurologist time-to-screen

11,000+

Patient encounters per month

TeleNeurology Solutions

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TeleStroke

TeleStroke care equips hospitals to care for patients experiencing strokes via telemedicine, including acute stroke care.

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TeleNeurosurgery

TeleNeurosurgeons provide guidance and identify patients with conditions requiring outbound transfers while supporting on-site staff to keep non-operative patients whenever medically appropriate and possible.

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TeleNeurohospitalist

TeleNeurohospitalists are fully integrated with on-site hospital staff to co-manage inpatient care for all neurology inpatients from admission through discharge.

Key Benefits of Access TeleCare teleNeurology Programs

Comprehensive Stroke Care

Comprehensive Stroke Care

Access TeleCare’s teleNeurologists respond to all emergent consultation requests in under five minutes, delivering rapid diagnostic and therapeutic decisions and keeping more post-thrombolytic stroke patients in their local communities for care.

Increase Case Mix Index

Increase Case Mix Index

Access TeleCare’s teleNeurology program delivers everything from emergent stroke care to complex inpatient neurology care, including consultations for Parkinson’s, neuropathy, myelopathy, the management of seizures, and stroke follow-up care.

Reduce Patient Transfers

Reduce Patient Transfers

Timely access to neurologists means hospitals can retain more patients as Access TeleCare’s expert neurologists guide care and identify patients who do not require a transfer.

Improve Quality of Care

Improve Quality of Care

Access TeleCare helps hospitals provide a full range of neurological care to improve outcomes through timely access to specialty neurological care.

Fast EEG Interpretation

Fast EEG Interpretation

Access TeleCare’s teleNeurology programs deliver routine, non-continuous EEG interpretation within 24 hours of study transmission.

Receive TeleNeurosurgery Consultations

Receive TeleNeurosurgery Consultations

Access TeleCare’s teleNeurosurgeons consult with on-site treating clinicians to help hospitals effectively triage complex neurological conditions and appropriately reduce outbound transfers.

Patient-Centered teleNeurology

Access TeleCare’s Chief of Neurology discusses the patient-centered nature of our
teleNeurology programs.

The Value of Telemedicine

Access TeleCare’s Chief of Neurology discusses how our workflows integrate well with existing culture and resources in partner hospitals.

Fully Integrated TeleNeurohospitalists Covering Patients From Admission to Discharge

Read the whitepaper to discover how Access TeleCare’s teleNeurohospitalist program works, program benefits and results, and five key elements of a successful teleNeurohospitalist program.

In just one year with Access TeleCare’s teleNeurohospitalist program, one health system:

Increased revenue by
80 percent

Decreased outbound neurology transfers by
60 percent

Increased Medicare neurology inpatient admissions
79 percent

Increased revenue by 80 percent

Decreased outbound neurology transfers by 60 percent

Increased Medicare neurology inpatient admissions 79 percent

See how TeleNeurohospitalists helped one health system boost revenue by nearly 80%.

Fill out the form below to download the whitepaper.

TeleNeurology With Access TeleCare Delivers:

  • Comprehensive Inpatient Coverage
  • Rapid Stroke Care

  • TeleNeurosurgery Consultations
  • TeleNeurohospitalist Coverage
  • Outpatient Neurology Services

  • 24-Hour EEG Interpretation
Title for Access TeleCare and UnityPoint Health Becker's Webinar with images of Dr. Chris Gallagher and Dr. Cate Ranheim

Access TeleCare Helps Hospitals Overcome Their Toughest Challenges

In this webinar, two industry veterans and innovators explored firsthand experiences and successful strategies in deploying telemedicine solutions to overcome challenges such as access to care, timeliness of care, and workforce issues, with a special focus on behavioral health and neurology programs.

Delivering Comprehensive Stroke Care Through Telemedicine

See how Access TeleCare’s teleStroke programs equip hospitals to care for patients experiencing strokes.

Addressing the Neurologist Shortage
Through Telemedicine

Telemedicine unlocks virtually any hospital’s ability to care for patients with even the most complex neurological care needs, even in the midst of a nationwide neurologist shortage.

TeleNeurology Articles

Improving Outcomes with Comprehensive teleNeurology

Meeting Complex Care Needs Locally

A stroke occurs every 40 seconds. Early diagnosis and treatment are critical. The gold standard for treatment of an ischemic stroke, the most common stroke type, is thrombolytic therapy delivered within a short window of hours from symptom onset. Our technology-enabled care delivery model provides prompt neurological expertise that eliminates geographic barriers to care and supports the full continuum of inpatient and outpatient care.

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