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Home / Blog / Using Telemedicine to Improve Patient Loyalty & Satisfaction Acquiring new patients is the prime focus for any hospital or health system’s marketing department, but how much attention is being paid to patient retention? In many lines of business, the...

Home / Blog / Important Considerations for Nursing Homes When Implementing Telemedicine Potentially avoidable hospitalizations tend to be top of mind for nursing home leadership and staff members due to the high costs associated with the transfer. In addition,...

Home / Blog / 5 Reasons Why an Entire Healthcare Community Should be Focused on Community Paramedicine Community paramedicine allows paramedics and emergency medical technicians to operate in expanded roles to provide routine healthcare services to underserved...

Home / Blog / Few Care Options Leave Rural Residents Out of Luck After-Hours Greg, a resident of a rural area in North Carolina, finds it hard to access healthcare especially for unscheduled care needs that may occur during after-hours when his primary care physician...

Home / Blog / The Surprising Way to Reduce Hospital Readmissions in Rural Hospitals The Readmission Problem Hospital readmission is a big problem in the United States. It is estimated that one in five Medicare patients discharged from the hospital is readmitted within...

Home / Blog / Ten Crucial Best Practices for Implementing a Direct-to-Consumer Telemedicine Program in Your Health System You’ve crunched the data, done your research, and decided that telemedicine is a good fit for your hospital system. Whether it’s the cost savings,...

Home / Blog / 5 Ways Telemedicine Is Helping Rural Hospitals & Their Communities Change has been hard on rural hospitals and their communities. Since 2010, more than 48 rural hospitals have closed and much more are on the brink of the same fate. Patients are...

The growth of telemedicine has caused the expected number of patients using telehealth services to rise from less than 350,000 in 2013 to nearly seven million in 2018. It’s no secret that telemedicine has been growing in past and recent years, but what has been...

Home / Blog / The Promise of Telemedicine & Shorter Appointment Wait Times Long wait times, often the first thing associated with health care and doctor visits, have been on the rise over the past few years. Research shows patients are spending more and more time...

Home / Blog / Top Benefits Telemedicine Can Offer Health Systems, Part 4 of 4 Welcome to the final part of our 4-part series where you’ll learn about the top benefits telemedicine offers health systems when they use it as an additional channel of care for their...