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- Psychiatric Patients' Demand For Emergency-room Care Presents A Problem The Affordable Care Act Won't Solve
Psychiatric patients' demand for emergency-room care has been a concern in hospitals, and it's going to get worse. Even though ERs are not properly equipped to help psychiatric patients, people still often go there with psychiatric concerns. Most...
- Ear, Nose And Throat Doctor At Uk Aims To Reduce State's High Rate Of Hearing Loss Among Children
Dr. Matthew Bush, an otolaryngologist at the University of Kentucky, is working to reduce the state's high rate of hearing loss, especially in Appalachia and among children. He was born in Charleston, W.Va., and attended medical school at Marshall...
- Telemedicine Can Help Delay Alzheimer's, Especially In Rural Areas, Where It Starts Sooner, Appalachian Health Conference Is Told
By Melissa Landon Kentucky Health News Telemedicine is a strategy that can be used to help prevent and treat Alzheimer's disease, especially in rural areas, where the disease comes sooner in life, Dr. Gregory Jicha, clinical-core director of the University...
- Doctors Use Telemedicine To Help Patients With Dementia, Alzheimer's
Following a nationwide trend, Kentucky doctors are turning to telemedicine to help patients with memory problems such as those associated with Alzheimer's disease and dementia, reports Allison Elliott with the University of Kentucky. "State-of-the-art...
- Almost $675,000 Awarded To Five Facilities To Improve Health Services, Reduce Disparities
Grants totaling nearly $675,000 will go from the Social Innovation Fund through the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky to help five Kentucky facilities improve access to health services, reduce health risks and disparities and prompt health equality in...
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Telemedicine helps reduce waits for mental-health patients in ER and provides better health-care access in schools
Health professionals have used telemedicine to help delay Alzheimer's disease and reduce hearing loss in Appalachia, especially among children. Now the new approach is helping students access health care, and mental-health patients to get faster medical attention in emergency rooms.
AMD Global Telemedicine has been establishing telemedicine systems in schools, which allow "providers to care for students on-site with few clinicians to support it," Katie Wike writes for Health IT Outcomes. So far "the Center for Rural Health Innovation in western North Carolina used the technology to support 14 school-based programs and provide care to 4,000 students.
The health-care provider can ask the questions during the exam, and "it doesn't assume the presenter knows the questions to ask," said CRHI Executive Director Amanda Martin. This approach allows one nurse practitioner to provide care to thousands of children. Some Kentucky schools are already using the telemedicine platform, Wike reports.
Sometimes when patients seek mental-health care in emergency rooms, no psychiatric services are available. In this case, hospitals often contact and wait for a provider to arrive or send written evaluations for review, Karla Paris writes for Health IT Outcomes. Now KentuckyOne Health has a telemedicine program that gives faster response times for those requesting mental-health care. For example, patients who visit Louisville's Ss. Mary & Elizabeth Hospital for mental-health care will be able to videoconference with professionals from Our Lady of Peace Hospital. "Patients can then be referred for admission at Our Lady of Peace, another outpatient program or care center," Paris reports.
AMD Global Telemedicine has been establishing telemedicine systems in schools, which allow "providers to care for students on-site with few clinicians to support it," Katie Wike writes for Health IT Outcomes. So far "the Center for Rural Health Innovation in western North Carolina used the technology to support 14 school-based programs and provide care to 4,000 students.
The health-care provider can ask the questions during the exam, and "it doesn't assume the presenter knows the questions to ask," said CRHI Executive Director Amanda Martin. This approach allows one nurse practitioner to provide care to thousands of children. Some Kentucky schools are already using the telemedicine platform, Wike reports.
Sometimes when patients seek mental-health care in emergency rooms, no psychiatric services are available. In this case, hospitals often contact and wait for a provider to arrive or send written evaluations for review, Karla Paris writes for Health IT Outcomes. Now KentuckyOne Health has a telemedicine program that gives faster response times for those requesting mental-health care. For example, patients who visit Louisville's Ss. Mary & Elizabeth Hospital for mental-health care will be able to videoconference with professionals from Our Lady of Peace Hospital. "Patients can then be referred for admission at Our Lady of Peace, another outpatient program or care center," Paris reports.
- Psychiatric Patients' Demand For Emergency-room Care Presents A Problem The Affordable Care Act Won't Solve
Psychiatric patients' demand for emergency-room care has been a concern in hospitals, and it's going to get worse. Even though ERs are not properly equipped to help psychiatric patients, people still often go there with psychiatric concerns. Most...
- Ear, Nose And Throat Doctor At Uk Aims To Reduce State's High Rate Of Hearing Loss Among Children
Dr. Matthew Bush, an otolaryngologist at the University of Kentucky, is working to reduce the state's high rate of hearing loss, especially in Appalachia and among children. He was born in Charleston, W.Va., and attended medical school at Marshall...
- Telemedicine Can Help Delay Alzheimer's, Especially In Rural Areas, Where It Starts Sooner, Appalachian Health Conference Is Told
By Melissa Landon Kentucky Health News Telemedicine is a strategy that can be used to help prevent and treat Alzheimer's disease, especially in rural areas, where the disease comes sooner in life, Dr. Gregory Jicha, clinical-core director of the University...
- Doctors Use Telemedicine To Help Patients With Dementia, Alzheimer's
Following a nationwide trend, Kentucky doctors are turning to telemedicine to help patients with memory problems such as those associated with Alzheimer's disease and dementia, reports Allison Elliott with the University of Kentucky. "State-of-the-art...
- Almost $675,000 Awarded To Five Facilities To Improve Health Services, Reduce Disparities
Grants totaling nearly $675,000 will go from the Social Innovation Fund through the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky to help five Kentucky facilities improve access to health services, reduce health risks and disparities and prompt health equality in...