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.
TeleNeurology: Expanding Access to Expert Neurological Care
What is teleNeurology ?
TeleNeurology is a branch of telemedicine that allows neurological experts to see patients remotely by videoconference to supplement or replace in-person neurological care. This helps patients get the care they need while reducing crucial waiting times.
Providing Neurology subspecialties via teleNeurology
Neurologists frequently sub-specialize following a residency in the fields of cognitive care, movement disorders, epilepsy, and several others. However, it’s often difficult to build a subspecialty practice that only services a specific disease state. Thus, neurologists typically build a practice as a generalist who also has a focus on some sub-specialty.
TeleNeurologists can practice across several hundred hospitals and rapidly build a population of disease-specific patients that can support their preferred sub-specialty practice. Hospitals can then have access, not just to a general neurologist, but to subspecialists with deep and focused expertise. The evolution and growth of telemedicine networks now allow us to supply a population of disease-specific patients to support the use of fellowship-trained specialists in an effective and affordable way that otherwise wouldn’t be possible.
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.TeleNeurology Benefits
Like other branches of telemedicine, teleNeurology provides many benefits to patients and providers, including:
- Access to ‘superspecialists’ for follow-up care
- Increased patient volume and hospital revenue
- Elimination of EMS bypass due to lack of neurology coverage
- Improved patient retention
- Increased neurological admissions
- Improved efficiency and standardization
- Decreased average length of hospital stay
TeleNeurology in the Future
Soon, hospitals may have access to other neurology specialists via telemedicine: a virtual epileptologist to see a patient with recurrent seizures, a movement disorder specialist to see a patient with poorly defined involuntary movements, as well as a stroke expert. The end result is that hospitals will be able to provide the highest level of expertise and care, at the right time, to the right patient on a national level through teleNeurology.
Conclusion
TeleNeurology has evolved significantly to help hospitals provide better care to patients and to increase overall hospital revenue. By incorporating teleNeurology into a hospital’s scope of care, it gains immediate access to a broader range of subspecialties, expands its patient capacity, and ultimately, saves more lives.
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