Hospital Partners with Telehealth

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New things are on the horizon at Magee General Hospital.

MGH Emergency Department will have access to what the larger hospitals have to offer right here at home.

According to medical literature, more than half of all U.S. hospitals now use some form of telehealth.  Telemedicine is in small rural hospitals as well as larger hospitals.

More hospitals are using technology to improve access and expand their networks with other hospitals and physicians.

Tony Tharpe, Manager and Business Development Center for Telehealth, and Dr. Kendall McKenzie of UMMC did a short presentation on how Telehealth works and overview of how this was would be helpful for the hospital and Nurse Practitioners.

At present time 17 facilities are using Telehealth in the state.

What is Telehealth?  According to The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines telehealth as the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support and promote long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, public health and health administration. Technologies include videoconferencing, the internet, store-and-forward imaging, streaming media, and terrestrial and wireless communications.

 

 

Pictured is Jennifer Aultman, Kayla Eubanks, Brenda Edwards, Dr. Kendall McKenzie and Melissa Cooper.