The Telemed Tablet is just one way to bring American Well’s http://americanwell.com telehealth platform into the hospital setting and make specialists available throughout a health system 24/7 from any location. It was just announced that American Well® has rolled out the telehealth solution to use for clinical collaboration within hospitals or large practice settings.
The “Telemed Tablet” http://americanwell.com/telemed-tablet uses patented technology to instantly locate and engage available specialists within the hospital ecosystem. The touchscreen tablet facilitates immediate live video visits between the requesting clinician and the remote provider to assist in patient care.
“Simply put, the Telemed Tablet opens the door to a completely different paradigm of availability of medical services and the approach for specialty staffing,” reports Roy Schoenberg, MD, CEO of American Well. “This will impact not only the cost of operating a clinical system, but also the quality, scope, and timing of care that can be rendered to a patient at any point in time at the location where they present.”
By using the tablet, hospitals can leverage staff and project specialty care more broadly. Affiliated clinicians even in community setting can use the Telemed Tablet to tap into available specialists and bring them to a patient’s bedside, the nurses’ station, or to the operating room. This creates a real-time switchboard for provider collaboration in a way than blends naturally into the existing health system workflow and builds on its current personnel assets.
From a hardware standpoint, the Telemed tablet is portable, slim and bright, encourages all members of a care team as well as the patient to participate in the video consult. Used as a hand-held or with an optional stand or cart, the Telemed Tablet brings instant specialty cover to any point-of-care.
“Telemedicine is shaping the future of healthcare and how we bring access to patients. The tablet utilizes telehealth by letting us know when a specialist is available anywhere in our system,” said Peter Rasmussen, MD, Director of Cerebrovascular Center http://my.clevelandclinic.org and Medical Director of Distance Health at the Cleveland Clinic. “We look forward to beginning pilots in several specialty departments to help discover new ways to bring quality care to patients.”