Healthcare IT News March 24, 2025
Sherene Schlegel, RN, chief operating officer and chief nursing officer for virtual care and digital health at the 51-hospital health system, offers a tour of its comprehensive telemedicine offering. She explains the program’s evolution and big results.
The Providence health system has an internal service available to its 51 hospitals and other rural and community hospitals in its eight-state service area, bringing specialists and other high-demand providers virtually to the hospital bedside.
This acute care telemedicine service – built by and for Providence – seamlessly integrates with clinical workflows and processes to provide quality care to any hospitalized patient in the Providence hospital ecosystem.
THE CHALLENGE
Anyone caring for critically ill patients knows that access to specialists and high-demand providers...