Enhancing Facility ROI through TeleMedicine
Reducing unnecessary patient transfers is just the beginning of a telemedicine program. Facilities who have incorporated virtual care into their clinical workflows and taken the initiative to create a well-defined and highly engaged program will result in a highly successful patient care initiative.
NEWS
TeleHealth Solution announces new executive team | McKnight’s Long Term Care News
by Kimberly Marselas, McKnight's Long Term Care News TeleHealth Solution, a company providing telemedicine services in the post-acute care setting, announced several management changes in addition to the appointment of three new senior executives. Current CEO Waseem Ghannam, M.D., is transitioning to the role of president and will remain on the board of directors for the company. [...]
TeleHealth Solution Announces Partnership with PointClickCare to Serve Long-Term Care Patients
TeleHealth Solution Integrates with PointClickCare's EHR Platform, Enables Bidirectional Data Exchange CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- TeleHealth Solution is proud to announce its partnership with PointClickCare, the leading cloud-based software vendor for the senior care market. As a result of the partnership, TeleHealth Solution's Webside Connect application will seamlessly connect with PointClickCare's core electronic health record (EHR) [...]
TeleHealth Solution Announces CEO Transition and New Executive Appointments
Accomplished leaders with deep functional expertise appointed to support growth and adoption CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- TeleHealth Solution, a patient and outcomes centered telemedicine solution that delivers expert medical care in the post-acute care setting, announced several management changes in addition to the appointment of three new Senior Executives to their Leadership Team. These appointments [...]
Garden Manor Care Center Partners With TeleHealth Solution
When I see a new team smiling, excited, engaged, even staying past their night shift to learn about the new program in their building, it validates what we TeleHealth Solution™ are doing. Working with visionaries like Kim Barrows, RN, BSN, LNHA, is refreshing and invigorating. It's snowing in Cincinnati Ohio, but I wasn't going to miss [...]
CommuniCare Clinton Maryland Partners With TeleHealth Solution
CommuniCare Clinton Maryland - My personal recipe for success? Simple... Stay humble, your business will grow but don't let your head grow at the same rate of your business. Respect your customers, without them you don't have a business. Be accountable and adapt to their needs, if you don't serve them then you are allowing an opportunity [...]
Iroquois Nursing Home Partners With TeleHealth Solution
Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today, I want to be a part of it, NEW YORK! Excited to be working with Iroquois Nursing Home, welcome to the new standard in post acute care with my team TeleHealth Solution™ Excited to start providing skilled nursing facility #telemedicine coverage in the Empire State. Thank you to Sonya [...]
CommuniCare Kensington Maryland Partners With TeleHealth Solution
I'd like to introduce CommuniCare Kensington, Maryland. Though we have deep seeded rivalry in college basketball, we have a mutual undeniable love in patient care. We are honored to serve you and your patients and welcome you to the new standard in post acute care. Proud of the wonderful team I have TeleHealth Solution™, you guys all [...]
The Retreat at Sunny Vista Will Offer Instant Access to Virtual Doctors by Partnering with TeleHealth Solution
The Retreat at Sunny Vista Will Offer Instant Access to Virtual Doctors by Partnering with TeleHealth Solution Residents of Brand New Retirement Community to be Spared Stressful Hospital ER Visits with Telemedicine Written By: Waseem Ghannam - Nov 10 2017 Colorado Springs, CO—The Retreat at Sunny Vista has partnered with Charlotte-based TeleHealth Solution to provide the elderly [...]
Glenbridge Health & Rehab Offers TeleHealth Solution To Provide Medical Services To Their Residents
Glenbridge Health & Rehab Offers TeleHealth Solution To Provide Medical Services To Their Residents Elderly Patients Spared Stressful Hospital ER Visits, Grateful for New Telemedicine Service in Area Nursing Home Boone, NC— Glenbridge Health and Rehabilitation is using the latest technology to provide quality healthcare to their patients and reduce medical costs. Glenbridge has partnered with a Charlotte [...]
Tri-County Care Center Offers Instant Access to Virtual Doctors by Partnering with TeleHealth Solution
Tri-County Care Center Offers Instant Access to Virtual Doctors by Partnering with TeleHealth Solution (left) Mindy Brewer, Corporate Nurse Coordinator | (right) Jami Sturgill, Care coordinator | At the Tri-County Care Center Open House. Elderly Patients Spared Stressful Hospital ER Visits, Grateful for Telemedicine in Area Nursing Home Fairfield, OH—Tri-County Care Center has partnered with [...]
INFORMATIVE ARTICLES
Technology Can Drive Patient-Centered Care | Nurse.com
At the beginning of March 2020, Susan Murphy, BSN, MS, RN, had to think on the fly about how to restore the connection hospitalized patients had lost because of COVID-19. Susan Murphy, RN Murphy, the chief experience officer at UChicago Medicine, said visiting hours stopped abruptly but patients’ needs for human connection remained. “That was a pretty [...]
TeleHealth Solution and OSU Medicine: Accelerating telehealth together
By Rhett Stover and Waseem Ghannam Eighteen months ago when our partnership began, we could not have foreseen either the changes in the world due to COVID-19, or the effect it would have on telemedicine nationally. The partnership between OSU Medicine and TeleHealth Solution is a primary care strategy aimed to provide a single point of contact [...]
12 health system execs outline post-pandemic telehealth strategy | Becker’s Spine Review
As featured in Becker's Spine Review Telehealth became a necessary tool for health systems and patients across the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic to access needed healthcare remotely. A major contributor to the success of telehealth over the past few months was CMS and commercial payers lifting restrictions and boosting pay rates for telehealth visits. While some [...]
Use Of Telemedicine Can Reduce Hospitalizations Of Nursing Home Residents And Generate Savings For Medicare
Use Of Telemedicine Can Reduce Hospitalizations Of Nursing Home Residents And Generate Savings For Medicare Written by David C. Grabowski, and A. James O’Malley originally posted at healthaffairs.org Abstract Hospitalizations of nursing home residents are frequent and result in complications, morbidity, and Medicare expenditures of more than a billion dollars annually. The lack of [...]
CASE STUDIES
TELEMEDICINE CASE STUDIES: Solving the Root Causes for Preventable 30-day Readmissions in SNF Settings
For Immediate Release: 05/11/18 | Written By: Scott Whitaker Download: PDF - TeleMedicine Case Study Spring 2018 Outlining the Problem: Reducing preventable 30-day hospital readmissions and RTAs is a top national priority. Reasons are multifold, but include: Rising Costs Increased risk of complications Especially risky for geriatric populations As many as 68% of readmissions are not [...]
Cannon Memorial Offers 24/7 Access To Virtual Doctors by Partnering with TeleHealth Solution
Charles A. Cannon, Jr. Memorial Hospital has partnered with Charlotte-based telemedicine company TeleHealth Solution to provide area patients with TeleHospitalist coverage 24/7 for immediate medical care. With a nurse assisting, an on-screen physician will conduct a virtual, face-to-face examination with a TeleMedicine cart and continue to manage that patient during their stay. In the vast majority [...]
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The Current State of Telehealth and the Future of Healthcare
TeleHealth Solution™ joins Health Professional Radio and examines the current state of telehealth on Health Professional Radio. Here we explores the paradigm shift in healthcare delivery during the pandemic and elaborates on the new healthcare delivery model, which is becoming a more proactive, home-based care movement. Neal Howard: Thanks for joining us for another segment. In this [...]
Virtual Care Implementation Strategies During The Pandemic
Overview Webinar: Virtual Care Implementation Strategies During The Pandemic The use of telehealth has accelerated with the movement towards digital care delivery showing no signs of slowing down. In order to ensure patients are receiving the highest quality care possible as the pandemic continues, rural acute and critical access hospitals must ramp up their virtual care strategies [...]
Digital front doors helping to address physician shortages
While physician shortages were a key industry issue prior to the pandemic, the situation has been further exacerbated by the pandemic, and is now forecasted to be further on the rise at post-acute facilities as we exit the pandemic. According to data published by the Association of American Medical Colleges, the United States could see an estimated [...]
Acceleration of virtual care in a post-pandemic era
The pandemic was a test of our resilience. Around the globe, patients and providers were impacted by COVID in new and unprecedented ways. Close to 600,000 U.S. lives were lost and another three million were lost globally. Over $4 trillion was spent in response to the pandemic and its economic effects. Healthcare workers performed heroic feats, putting [...]
TeleHealth Solution Is Expanding Into “TelePsych” Services
TeleHealth Solution is excited to announce its expansion in services for all post-acute and senior living providers to include geriatric psychiatry. TeleHealth Solution was initially created to provide telehospitalist physicians, with a goal to curb hospital transfers in skilled nursing facilities, assisted living communities, and independent living communities. They have had great success in “treating patients in [...]
Dr. Waseem Ghannam | What is nursing staff’s perception
I get asked by friends, colleagues and customers why we do what we do. The patient's we serve, in the manner we serve and in the important period we enter their life, it means so much to me and my team at TeleHealth Solution™ - Dr. Ghannam
Dr. Waseem Ghannam | How TeleMedicine Is Changing Lives
I get asked by friends, colleagues and customers why we do what we do. The patient's we serve, in the manner we serve and in the important period we enter their life, it means so much to me and my team at TeleHealth Solution™ - Dr. Ghannam
Increasing Occupancy in your Skilled Nursing Facility with Telemedicine
Telemedicine has been used in a vast number of settings to bring physician care to patients and now, it is helping increase occupancy rates in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). Implementing telemedicine in facilities will help increase occupancy, revenue, along with staff and patient satisfaction. Skilled nursing facilities are starting to implement the use of telemedicine during [...]
“Treating in Place” in Skilled Nursing Facilities and Assisted Livings: Why it Matters and how Telemedicine Can Help
“Treating in Place” in Skilled Nursing Facilities and Assisted Livings: Why it Matters and how Telemedicine Can Help Treating in Place is one of those buzzwords in healthcare right now that sounds deceptively simple, but isn’t easy to achieve. For the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) and Assisted Living (AL) settings, treating in place can mean a [...]
CommuniCare: Bridgewater Healthcare Services
CommuniCare: Bridgewater Healthcare Center CommuniCare: Bridgewater Healthcare Center is moving into the future of medicine with TeleHealth support from TeleHealth Solution. With our partnership, we are giving patients 24/7 access to physician care to prevent hospital readmissions "What better way to look forward to 2018 with TeleMedicine launches across the country starting this week! Thank you to our Director [...]
CommuniCare Health Services Greenbrier Parma Heights
CommuniCare Health Services Greenbrier Parma Heights is moving into the future with TeleHealth support helping patients get 24/7 in facility care by professional hospitalist. "I require all of our doctors to follow one principle, treat patients with the same respect and dignity you would expect for your parents. Thank you to Evan Bingen for everything you've [...]
89% Avoided Readmissions Reported For November
89% Avoided Readmissions Reported For November The TeleHealth Solution team is always working hard to prevent as many return to hospital (RTH) trips as possible for their Skilled Nursing Facility partners. A RTH can adversely affect patients’ health and outcomes. Through telemedicine, our hospitalist physicians prevent adverse events, lower costs, improve patient outcomes, and [...]
CommuniCare Health Services Pebble Creek
CommuniCare Health Services Pebble Creek is moving into the future with TeleHealth support helping patients get 24/7 in facility care by professional hospitalist. "Proud to be working directly with CommuniCare Health Services we just finished orienting the team at Pebble Creek and the staff is excited knowing their patients now have around the clock coverage. Great [...]
Finding your Telemedicine Match: Factors to Consider in Choosing a Partner
Finding your Telemedicine Match: Factors to Consider in Choosing a Partner Written by Dr. Jason Perlman | MD, MHS, Clinical Professor | President and Co-Founder of Telehealth Solution As a health facility administrator, you might know that it’s time to consider telemedicine as an option to secure your facility’s future. Choosing the right telemedicine partner, however, [...]
Telehealth Hospitalists: Key Ally in Fight for PAMA Compliance
Telehealth Hospitalists: Key Ally in Fight for PAMA Compliance Jason Perlman MD, MHS, Clinical Professor | President and Co-Founder of TelehealthSolution Published on Published onNovember 3, 2017 Less than a year from the implementation of PAMA’s Medicare reimbursement penalties for 30-day rehospitalizations, many Skilled Nursing Facility administrators are left calculating how hard their facilities will be [...]
Telemedicine Helps Residents Age in Place In Assisted Living Communities
Telemedicine Helps Residents Age in Place In Assisted Living Communities Written By: Waseem Ghannam | Oct, 29th 2017 Unnecessary hospital admissions are a proven problem in the healthcare system and have been costing hospitals, Medicare, and patients millions of dollars in the process. Hospital providers are pressured to discharge medically complex patients quicker and they depend [...]
LOWERING READMITS IN SKILLED NURSING: TELEMEDICINE & HOSPITALIST ARE KEY
LOWERING READMITS IN SKILLED NURSING: TELEMEDICINE & HOSPITALIST ARE KEY Written By: Waseem Ghannam | Oct, 16th 2017The country is now turning to telemedicine to provide top quality care to patients in skilled nursing facilities directly.Post-acute care has evolved over the last several years to expand their services and maintain demand. Skilled nursing facilities are being [...]
Patients in rural hospitals can save thousands of dollars if local hospital is part of tele-emergency room network
BY: TOM SNEE | 2017.05.24 | 12:01 PM Patients in small towns can save thousands of dollars in health care costs if their local rural hospital is part of a tele-emergency room network, according to a new study from the University of Iowa. Patients can save about $5,600 a year in transportation and other related expenses by staying in their local [...]
Dictum Health Receives FDA 510K Clearance for Portable Spirometry
Dictum Health Receives FDA 510K Clearance for Portable Spirometry for In-Clinic Use and Remote Patient Monitoring Expanding Telehealth to Include the Most At-Risk Patients PRESS RELEASE UPDATED: AUG 8, 2017 06:00 PDT Oakland, Ca, August 8, 2017 (Newswire.com) - Dictum Health, Inc., innovators in telehealth solutions for acute, post-acute, and remote patient monitoring, is excited to announce that the company [...]
Millions of Americans live nowhere near a hospital, jeopardizing their lives
Millions of Americans live nowhere near a hospital, jeopardizing their lives By Caitlin Ostroff and Ciara Bri'd Frisbie, CNN (CNN)As a nurse practitioner, Wanda Liddell knew it was a medical emergency when she saw one of her patients struggling to breathe last month. But in her backcountry town of Cross City, Florida, the ambulance took 30 [...]
Preparing for value-based care: Questions for every SNF
Preparing for value-based care: Questions for every SNF Written by Richard Royer, June 22, 2016 (originally posted at: http://www.mcknights.com/) Next year the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will begin creating the Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing Program (SNFVBP) that is scheduled to be launched in 2019. Based on what CMS has shared [...]
The key to making virtual visits a digital success
The key to making virtual visits a digital success Ami Bhatt, MD, a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, had her first video visit three years ago, with a patient who lived on the island of Nantucket. The man, who had atrial fibrillation and a long surgical history, found it difficult to travel to Boston for checkups. [...]
Nursing Home Provider Perceptions of Telemedicine for Reducing Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations
Nursing Home Provider Perceptions of Telemedicine for Reducing Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations Julia Driessen PhD a,b, Andro Bonhomme MDc, Woody Chang MDd, David A. Nace MD, MPHe, Dio Kavalieratos PhD f, Subashan Perera PhD e,g, Steven M. Handler MD, PhD b,e,* DOWNLOAD PDF Abstract Objective: Potentially avoidable hospitalizations (PAHs) of nursing home (NH) residents are [...]
No Up-Front Costs Pricing Model
No Up-Front Costs Pricing ModelA doctor available at the touch of a button, 24/7? Imagine the reaction you would get from prospective patients and their families. With TeleHealth Solution, your facility could have a distinct, unique advantage over your competition. The peace of mind brought to families and patients by 24/7 physician access is priceless. We provide [...]
The Substantial Financial Cost of PAMA Penalties
The Substantial Financial Cost of PAMA Penalties The cost savings are obvious. Having all-hours access to a skilled specialist through TeleHealth Solution saves a hospitalist program nearly 67% of the average nocturnal rate—and changes the way medicine saves lives. This is the future of healthcare. The average cost of each readmission: $10,352 Total cost per year [...]