During the COVID-19 pandemic, many barriers to telemedicine and access to remote doctors were removed to meet emergency healthcare demand. Most states relaxed in-state licensing requirements for physicians and treatment and reimbursement restrictions were modified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). These temporary changes opened doors to patient care and telemedicine. For…
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Over the past several years, hospital revenue has fallen while facilities have also been pushed to provide higher quality, lower cost care. In many states, hospitals joined regional health networks to offer more coordinated care using shared resources. Smaller hospitals, often in rural areas, struggled to serve their communities without that support system, losing physician…
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Medicaid patients are among the country’s most vulnerable, as these millions of Americans include low-income adults, children, pregnant women, elderly adults and people with disabilities. They live in every corner of the US — in densely populated cities, remote rural regions, towns and cities of every size. In setting up the Medicaid system, the federal…
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With the COVID-19 crisis, Eagle Telemedicine has seen an uptick in questions about telehealth implementation plans. Hospitals contacted Eagle to prepare for coronavirus patients, and manage the care of patients with the virus. The flurry of requests was no surprise. Jason Povio, Senior Vice President of Operations at Eagle Telemedicine What was a surprise? More…
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Tele-ICU companies, like Eagle, are responding to the physician shortage. The lack of critical care specialists, is straining hospitals across the country. An aging patient population, high-tech devices, and new diseases are compounding these challenges. This is certainly true for cardiovascular and pulmonary patients who require life-saving care, including those with COVID-19. Many small rural…
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For hospitals managing patients suffering from the coronavirus, the advantages of telemedicine are top of mind. The pandemic highlights a challenge telemedicine helps hospitals overcome: the physician shortage. Rural hospitals leverage hospitalists for coverage because there is a limited supply of critical care, infectious disease, neurology and other specialists. Community hospitals are often required to pay…
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Hospitalist Focus on Metrics – Our Challenges Increase The practice of hospitalist medicine is a unique and challenging specialty. On one hand, the care of a patient by a Hospitalist is characterized by immense individual hospitalist responsibility for the medical care delivered to very critical patients. Appreciating that challenge and having the desire to live…
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In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, hospitals in hotspot areas were overwhelmed and healthcare workers struggled to treat the thousands of patients across the country. As the virus gradually worked its way into more communities, there came a tipping point. Patients were still coming into emergency departments for heart attacks and strokes, but hospitals…
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Like most Americans, I am staying home with my family during the COVID-19 crisis. Social distancing is a good time for us to take life a little more slowly and reconnect with one another. It also gives me time to put our current world situation in perspective. Perspective is easy to lose in times of…
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Dr. Rania Saleh, an infectious disease specialist with Eagle Telemedicine, had not admitted any COVID-19 patients at the time of this writing. However, she is preparing alongside her onsite clinical teams at rural Wisconsin hospitals. “My space is quiet right now,” she says. “My time is spent educating physicians and nurses, patients and patients’ families on proper…
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