mHealth Intelligence July 1, 2020
Eric Wicklund

During a panel session at the American Telemedicine Association’s recent virtual conference, experts from two large health systems explained how telehealth improves care for complex patients no matter where they are.

As healthcare providers launch telehealth programs to improve critical care management and coordination, they’re seeing value far beyond the ICU.

Indeed, as the coronavirus pandemic taxes hospital resources and a growing shortage of critical care doctors becomes more apparent, hospitals and health systems are deploying telemedicine technology to treat patients wherever they’re located.

“This is telehealth at a different level,” said Jeff Guy, MD, MSc, MMHC, FACS, vice president of Emergency and Critical Care Services with HCA Healthcare, a Nashville-based network of some 186 hospitals and more than 2,000...

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