American Hospital Association November 27, 2018
Telehealth centers of excellence
In an effort to mitigate the state’s health disparities, the Medical University of South Carolina provides 77 telehealth services to more than 200 sites in 27 South Carolina counties, and MUSC’s aggregate number of annual telehealth interactions has grown from 1,078 in 2013 to more than 235,000 in 2017. Seventy-eight percent of its telehealth sites are in completely or partially medically underserved regions.
The organization provides telehealth support to approximately 30 hospitals, 100 community clinics, 50 schools, and alternative sites such as nursing facilities, prisons and patients’ homes.
To reach the many rural and underserved communities in Mississippi, the University of Mississippi Medical Center launched a tele-emergency medicine program 2003 to connect small, rural hospitals...
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