High Intensity Telemedicine Reduces Emergency Department Use ...

Telehealth Utilization in Trauma Care: The Effects on Emergency ...

Telehealth practices resulted in comparable or reduced emergency department length of stay for trauma patients admitted to the emergency department.

Cigna study: Virtual care can reduce unnecessary ER, urgent care ...

The study, conducted alongside its telehealth arm MDLive, found that patients who saw virtual providers also saw 19% fewer visits to the ER or urgent care.

Reducing Emergency Department Transfers from Skilled Nursing ...

Using electronic health record data from both the telemedicine and ambulance transfers, our primary outcome was the odds ratio (OR) of a ...

In a Postpandemic Era, Is Telehealth Still a Vital Tool?

demonstrated that teletriage reduced wait times and the number of patients who left the emergency department without being seen. Furthermore, they reported that ...

Perceptions of Acute Care Telemedicine Among Caregivers for ...

High-intensity telemedicine reduces emergency department use by older adults with dementia in senior living communities. Journal of the American Medical ...

Introduction to telehealth practices for emergency departments

With wider use, telehealth has the potential to have lasting impact on future emergency preparedness and typical day-to-day emergency and acute care.

A Matter of Urgency: Reducing Emergency Department Overuse

The high costs impact both patients and payers and create a drain on resources. Avoidable ED use diminishes the quality of ED care; crowding, long waits and ...

How telemedicine may ease ER overcrowding - ScienceDaily

Researchers have found that the adoption of telemedicine in the emergency room significantly shortened average length of stay and wait time.

Studies Show That Telemedicine Saves Critically Ill Patients - Mend

Telemedicine care reduces the likelihood that patients will utilize the emergency room as a means to access specialty care. Further, patients who do present to ...

Research Anthology: Telehealth and Telemedicine - CDC

Telehealth is the use of electronic and telecommunication devices to deliver health education and care. · It can potentially increase healthcare ...

Telemedicine decreases ED use by senior living residents with ...

Use of telemedicine can decrease emergency department use ... high-intensity” telemedicine services to diagnose and treat their illnesses.

Patients' Perception of Telemedicine in a Large Urban Inner-City ...

... emergency department (ED) overcrowding, improve ED throughput, and decrease the cost ... use that service of coming to the ED? o I would ...

Medical advice lines offering on-demand access to providers ...

Instant access to clinicians through virtual care is designed to allow patients to receive care they need while avoiding high-cost visits in ...

Reducing Unnecessary Emergency Department Visits | CMS

This is often a small group, and understanding why they use or may use the ED will have the biggest and fastest impact on unnecessary ED utilization. In.

Rapid creation of an emergency department telehealth program ...

There has been a dramatic increase in COVID-19 cases around the world. ED patients and staff are exposed to the virus and ED telehealth can ...

Utilizing telehealth in the ER can reduce wait times and patient ...

But rather than diminish the quality of care, new research in the INFORMS journal Information Systems Research finds that wider use of ...

Use of Telemedicine to Screen Patients in the Emergency Department

Owing to continued ED overcrowding, some EDs have used telemedicine to increase the number of providers during surges of patient visits and ...

Telehealth follow-up after emergency department visit associated ...

Telehealth follow-up consultations following an emergency department visit were associated with 28 more repeat ED encounters and nearly 11 more return hospital ...

Are primary care virtual visits associated with higher emergency ...

One such study found high practice telehealth use was associated with a small increase in emergency room visits and hospitalizations for ...

Telemedicine reduces hospital transfers for very ill kids at rural ...

New UC Davis Health research confirms that pediatric critical care telemedicine consults with clinicians in rural and community emergency ...