Healthcare IT News January 18, 2022
Across the country, the organizations are relieving stressed-out critical care teams and filling in where necessary to fight COVID-19. The telehealth system is ready for other disasters, as well.
Avel eCARE, a telehealth network and virtual hospital, helped develop the federally funded initiative known as the National Emergency Tele-Critical Care Network and is now expanding its work with the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense to provide critical care expertise to hospitals and municipalities struggling with COVID-19 surges in the South.
Over the past few months, the organizations have deployed telemedicine services to support care in at least a half-a-dozen states, including Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana.
For example, in Florida, Avel eCARE partnered...