Virtual Care: Successful Telemedicine Programs – Rolling out a successful telemedicine program requires significant collaboration and coordination between people, organizations, and health information technologists.
Connecting MDs to MDs and MDs to patients to optimize patient care, minimize inefficiencies, and maximize access requires orchestration between patients and providers, billing, scheduling, compliance, insurance reimbursement, EHRs/PACs, affiliate/partner organizations, credentialing, and training. Tele-stroke, tele-neurology, pediatric tele-epilepsy, tele-maternal fetal medicine, neurointensive care tele-rounding, Michigan Child Care Collaborative (MC3) pediatric and perinatal tele-psychiatry and child protection team teleconsults are some examples of Michigan Medicine’s telemedicine successes. Also, over 30 different multidisciplinary tumor boards allow radiologists, pathologists, surgeons, oncologists and many other specialists to connect and optimize complex patient diagnosis and treatment.
This patient care utilizes an infrastructure integrating Polycom, Cisco, Vidyo, Blue Jeans, and peripheral devices to provide connectivity between Michigan Medicine and its affiliates and strategic partners around the world including MidMichigan Health, Metro Health, MD Anderson, Ghana, Ethiopia, India, and many other locations.
