Healthcare Innovation March 25, 2020
Kaiser Permanente intensivists to use telemedicine to guide hospitalists providing critical care
In preparing for the coming surge of patients, Kaiser Permanente hospitals are working to shift physicians and nurses and to use telehealth in new ways to make up for the expected shortage of intensivists.
Speaking during a March 24 webinar put on by the Commonwealth Fund, Stephen Parodi, M.D., executive vice president of the Permanente Medical Group, said Kaiser is looking at providing specialty telemedicine. “There are not going to be enough intensivists to do business as usual,” he said. “But we do have intensivists who can use their knowledge to provide that to hospitalists, where we have a larger work force, to provide the critical care at...
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