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Coping with Crises: Using Telemedicine to Deliver Effective Virtual Critical Care

HIT Consultant

NETCCN and its partners, including Avel eCare, worked quickly to connect remote community hospitals with skilled critical care clinicians using telemedicine technology. Providers must be able to adapt quickly and understand exactly what they need to keep patients safe and achieve better outcomes. The results have been transformative.

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Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

Health Populi

The metrics compared were access to care, care process, administrative efficiency, equity, and health care outcomes. ranked number 11 out of 11 nations with the exception of care process, based on four pillars: preventive care, safe care, coordinated care, and engagement and patient preferences.