Healthcare Organizations Find New Ways to Collaborate and Care for Patients
HealthTech December 12, 2024
Virtual care and meeting platforms combine with collaboration hardware are enhancing care team communication and patient care.
Staff members at Moffitt Cancer Center, headquartered in Tampa, Fla., had already adopted Zoom as a collaboration tool in 2019 when they decided to test whether it could work as a telemedicine solution for cancer patients.
“We did a pilot among physicians, including surgeons, medical oncologists and radiation oncologists, just to see what the general experience was using virtual care for our cancer patient population, and it was a positive one,” says Dr. Philippe Spiess, medical director of virtual care at Moffitt. “When COVID-19 creeped up on all of us, we realized that we needed to have a really robust telemedicine platform set...