With a pulmonary and critical care telemedicine program, hospitals can retain patients locally with:

• End-stage diseases such as advanced kidney injury; myocardial infarction and congestive heart failure; multi-organ failure; respiratory failure, including the use of mechanical ventilation; and complex infections.
• Lung-specific diseases, including pleural diseases, obstructive sleep apnea, pulmonary hypertension, interstitial lung diseases, and exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Read how Palo Pinto General Hospital increased its ICU census and case mix index and served more patients locally with our tele-pulmonary and critical care program.

Through Access TeleCare’s outpatient telemedicine solutions, clinics have access to pulmonologists for initial and follow-up visits for patients with a number of lung/respiratory conditions, including:

• COVID-19/“long COVID”
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• Severe asthma
• Pulmonary fibrosis
• Other lung health concerns

Our team pioneered the development and use of Code Blue telemedicine programs for patients experiencing cardiac arrest in 2015. This service line is staffed by highly trained physicians who are comfortable in intense situations requiring patient resuscitation.

These programs have reduced relative mortality rates by 17 percent and absolute mortality rates by 1.8 percent. Since the inception of the Code Blue programs, our team has provided on-call cardiac arrest management for more than 1 million patients.