Mayo Clinic www.mayoclinic.org is upgrading their services by offering telemedicine to more than 45 hospitals across nine states served by Mayo Clinic’s emergency telemedicine services. Emergency telemedicine provides acute medical assessment to people who need immediate emergency care through video communications.
Now Mayo Clinic will be able to work with just one vendor to create scalable, standardized services across Mayo Clinic’s nationwide telemedicine enterprise. Before, Mayo Clinic worked with numerous vendors as it grew their emergency telemedicine practice.
“By combining the breadth and depth of Mayo Clinic’s knowledge and expertise with standardized technology across the enterprise, we will create a comprehensive, integrated, multispecialty emergency telemedicine program”, said Bart Demaerschalk, MD, Mayo Clinic Neurologist and Medical Director of Synchronous Telemedicine Services for the Clinic’s Center for Connected Care.
Also, according to Dr. Demaerschalk, this strategy provides a seamless patient experience and more opportunity for the Clinic to grow its clinical service lines. The initial telemedicine service lines to participate are Tele-Stroke and Tele-Neonatology. The Clinic already provides care to more than 5,000 people per year through these services lines but now the Clinic will be able to assist more patients across more sites.
“This is an exciting milestone for connected care at Mayo”, reports Christopher Colby M.D Chair of the Pediatrics Neonatal Medicine Division and Telehealth Director for Pediatrics. “We will now offer a technology platform specifically designed to deliver emergent telemedicine consultation.”