Patient medical care can be depicted by a pyramid with three levels: Primary Care/Urgent Care, Specialists/Hospitalization, and Long Term care – should a fourth be added?
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Category Archives: Telemedicine
Telemedicine for Chronic Gastrointestinal Disease Management
As telemedicine continues to become more mainstream, more and more applications which enable patients to reduce the amount of time spent traveling to a doctor’s office are being implemented. For some, these…
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Telemedicine: A Unique Opportunity to Combat Addiction
“I am asking for your help to solve an urgent health crisis facing America: the opioid epidemic.” Dr. Vivek Murthy, 19th Surgeon General of the U.S. Earlier this year, these words were…
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AR Saves Stroke Patients with Telemedicine
Strict on telemedicine Arkansas has recently been making the news for a positive reason – a statewide telemedicine program that focuses on stroke patients.
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Telemedicine Services for Those Who Serve
Recently the U.S. Department of Defense issued a memorandum that effectively changed the Military Health System (MHS) policy on telemedicine.
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Evaluating Telemedicine
From simple evaluations of lower acuity ailments like the flu – to life-threatening ailments like strokes – telemedicine is changing the healthcare system.
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Telehealth Utilization in the Workplace
Telemedicine services are gaining rapid popularity with employers looking to optimize the throughput of their workforce by offering the health benefit.
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Arkansas Lagging on the Telehealth Front
While progress has been made in Arkansas regarding telemedicine legislation, barriers still exist and continue to cause a headache for telehealth advocates.
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ED, UC, PCP or .COM
Treatment in urgent care centers and primary care clinics may be less costly than in emergency departments, but telemedicine can prove more convenient.
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Telehealth Traverses the Globe
Threats like Zika and cancer are swiftly being addressed by telemedicine programs which target near-inaccessible populations across the globe.
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