Author: katharinaforth2

The telehealth goal is to keep patients in their communities, reducing transfers, lowering costs, and increasing patient satisfaction, while giving high-quality care. Intermountain hospital emergency department doctors can now connect with Primary Children’s Hospital’s emergency department, trauma and pediatric ICU specialists through a TeleHealth video consult available 24/7. “We’ve found that about 80 percent of pediatric emergency, trauma and ICU patients who’ve been transferred to Primary Children’s are discharged within 24 hours. During a six-month trial period of this new Telehealth pediatric service, about half of those pediatric emergency patients are now able to safely stay in their local communities,” ... Read more