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STeM offers Inpatient, Outpatient, and Emergent virtual care for hospitals & clinics of any size. Our BC/BE Clinicians will support your current providers in a non-competitive manner or help stand up a new service line to give your patient population the world-class care they deserve. Specialty Telemedicine can help reduce unnecessary transfers, increase patient & family satisfaction as well as mitigate readmission and length of stay outliers. Contact us to learn more about how we can extend, build, and improve the virtual care programs that will help bring your community to the future of medicine, today.
The US has over 1300 Critical Access Hospitals that provide vital health services to rural communities. Many of those facilities share common challenges when it comes to providing specialty-specific health care. In an effort to help mitigate some of the staffing and financial challenges Critical Access Hospitals will face while working towards improved access to care for their communities, STeM provides specialty services with a low, flat-rate pricing structure with little or no monthly minimums. Contact us to learn more about specialty-specific telemedicine services and programs that are flexible and affordable.
Maritime TeleMed provides global telemedicine coverage to employees and crews no matter where they happen to be. Our clinicians can support your healthcare needs in a variety of ways including; emergent & routine medical assistance, case management, monitoring, and compliance. The safety and wellbeing of your employees and crew is our number one priority and we’ll design a flexible program that brings the services you need to remote locations all over the world.
Supporting the correctional industry for almost a decade, Specialist TeleMed is the global leader in providing medical assistance to correctional administrators and their care team. STeM’s correctional telemedicine service is an effective vehicle of delivery to improve the continuity of care for better outcomes while reducing the overall cost of care.
Health Systems face unique challenges that require flexible, non-competitive solutions that can meet each location’s specific needs. STeM offers Board-Certified/Board-Eligible clinicians for any care location using the technology platforms you already own. Our BC/BE Clinicians will support your current providers in a non-competitive manner or help stand up a new service line to give your patient population the world-class care they deserve and expand your System’s regional footprint. Contact us to learn more about how we can extend, build, and improve the virtual care programs that will help bring your community to the future of medicine, today.
STeM Physicians can support your patient population in Skilled Nursing Facilities with flexible programs designed for each location’s unique needs. By providing timely, specialty-specific care to your SNF patients, Specialist TeleMed can mitigate emergency transfers, decrease hospital readmissions, increase financial stability, improve patient engagement and care, and increase overall satisfaction for patients, family, and staff. COVID-19 has increased the need for telemedicine across the entire spectrum of care locations, but the medical & psychiatric challenges in units caring for some of our most vulnerable have seen a significant increase over the last year+.
Specialist TeleMed’s TeleCardiology solution provides board-certified cardiologists for even the most complex cardiac patients.
Our specialists in Cardiology are available 24/7/365 with response times of five minutes or less for true emergencies, fifteen minutes for urgent conditions, and thirty minutes for non-urgent conditions and follow-up calls. (While we are available for urgent consultations regarding the management of unstable cardiac arrhythmias and CODES when appropriate, live video linkage and primary management of these should be through ACLS guidelines and are not appropriate for telemedicine.)
While the intent in the primary service line is outlined above, some facilities may have needs that extend beyond the ED and the immediate care of cardiac patients. As such, while still in the inpatient setting, we can offer ongoing care of patients that may have lingering but non-urgent issues, or for non-urgent inpatient consultation services in the inpatient setting.
We can also offer first-call services for larger facilities that have full coverage but may want to lessen the burden of the primary on-call team, which allows for better focusing of the “front-line” resources.
STeM’s Gastroenterologists can provide patients with GI disorders the access to the care they need without having to wait for an available appointment or traveling to see a specialist outside of their community. By monitoring the complex medication regimens, offering support for compliance, side-effects, and care plan adherence, you will see increased patient satisfaction and positive clinical outcomes.
Covers full emergent neurology needs in your ED including the evaluation and treatment of stroke and status epilepticus. Our board-certified physicians are available 24/7/365 with response times of 5 minutes or less for true emergencies and a maximum 15 minute response time for all neurologic consultations. This increases the tPA administration rate for qualified stroke patients as compared to the national average.
In addition to Stroke Neurology, we can offer General Neurology for non-emergent evaluation of conditions for patients that may benefit from a neurologist consultation and, as a result, improve patient care, satisfaction, decreased LOS and maximize continuity of care.
In addition to Stroke and General Neurology, STeM uniquely offers a rounding service that allows for ongoing patient continuity for hospitals and medical systems that have a high need for inpatient, hospital floor presence. This can reduce LOS and potential complications in many settings.
STeM’s Pulmonologists provide timely and specific care evaluations to patients throughout the hospital, whether ED or Inpatient settings. By synergistically working with your clinical team and STeM’s board-certified pulmonologists, you can help reduce the length of stay average, increase patient retention, improve continuity of care and increase diagnostic accuracy for patients with pulmonology concerns.
Specialist TeleMed can support your team with Critical Care Intensivists in your ICU, Step Down, and Inpatient Units. By extending your clinical capabilities and ICU coverage, your organization can increase diagnostic accuracy and advance local standards of care to improve clinical outcomes and patient retention. Contact us to help design a flexible CCU/ICU program that makes sense for your unique patient base.
STeM’s General Surgery providers can support your clinical teams with many different care plan options including pre and post surgical consultations for both Inpatient and Outpatient care settings. By coordinating & working with your team, our providers can help provide world-class care to your patient base and give relief to your current providers so they can focus on intra and perioperative care plans.
80% of your Neurosurgery patient consultations don’t actually require a face-to-face, physical examination. STeM’s clinicians can support your current surgeons and neuro team or stand up a new service to give your care providers access to much sought-after specialty physician consultations. Our board-certified Neurosurgeons can help improve diagnostic accuracy and early access to advanced neurologic and spine care.
STeM’s Tele-Rheumatologists offer expanded access and improved care for patients with any type of Rheumatic disease or condition. In addition to increasing care plan adherence, virtual care can help your organization reduce leakage and increase patient & caregiver satisfaction.
STeM can provide synchronous and asynchronous access to Dermatologists to evaluate and address any number of dermatologic diseases and symptoms. When coordinated with your care teams, tele-dermatology can improve timeliness and positive clinical outcomes by creating a seamless care plan that is advantageous for both patients and staff.
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the importance of Infectious Disease specialists and even prior to the pandemic, the need for ID specialists was already increasing at a steady rate. Specialist TeleMed covers infectious disease needs in your ED/Inpatient setting including the evaluation and treatment of sepsis, immunocompromised patients as well as routine infectious conditions in challenging patients, or complex infectious conditions in otherwise routine patients. Importantly, our infectious disease team initiates treatment in the ED for patients that would potentially benefit from early intervention, reduce the length of stay, and return frequency. By offering insurance reimbursement of revenue collected from collections at your hospital, STeM will reimburse hospitals for program telemedicine up to 100% of the cost of the program.
In addition to Hospital/ED infectious disease, we can offer scheduled infectious disease consultations for hospitals that are already staffed with partial ID coverage or have a level of comfort with higher acuity patients. Whether this is augmenting existing partial coverage or creating stand-alone coverage, STeM:ID can accomplish your hospital’s needs. By allowing for scheduled ID evaluations and follow-up consultations, our goal is to improve patient care, patient satisfaction, and continuity of care. This can be structured as 24/7 or as an elective consultation service from 8-5 pm for cost savings for the hospital.
The STeM operational & clinical teams can help your facility design & implement a successful tele-oncology program based on your unique patient care needs. By creating a flexible program, your patients can receive the specialty-specific care they need without having to travel.
Sleep medicine is a technology-driven medical specialty in which sleep specialists have implemented innovative technology to treat various sleep illnesses. However, there are major barriers to diagnosis of sleep disorders which include access to care, lack of education, treatment and cost. Telemedicine has created health care without walls by connecting patients and medical providers through live, web-based video visits.
Patients are able to connect with Specialist TeleMed’s board-certified sleep medicine specialists to discuss treatment for sleep disorders. By eliminating those barriers, telemedicine improves access to care. It saves time and reduces travel expenses, making high-quality health care more efficient, affordable and accessible to those who need it most.
STeM Emergency Medicine providers can support your facility’s Urgent & Emergent units both large and small. A patient’s first impression often starts in one of these units so providing timely, world-class care is an important first step in a patient’s care journey. Reducing LWBS and increasing your throughput adds value to your bottom line and provides the critical care your patients require.
STeM’s Internal Medicine physicians can serve a number of flexible roles in almost any care setting. By giving your patients access to Internal Medicine physicians, you can help reduce the length of stay outliers, increase diagnostic accuracy, strengthen care plan management, and increase patient and staff satisfaction.
Tele-Ophthalmology increases early access for many patients that are at risk for diabetic vision loss resulting in better clinical outcomes for those patients. STeM’s providers can also greatly increase your patient population’s access to timely vision screenings and care for any number of ophthalmologic conditions & diseases.
STeM’s Tele-Urologists can provide adult teleconsultations, for postoperative inpatient and outpatient telemedicine rounds, and clinics, as an alternative to traditional follow-up office visits for local urology patients for any care location including skilled nursing home residents and other care locations with patients that might need urologic specific treatments.
STeM’s Tele-Endocrinologists can initiate, support, and expand access to services and care that some of your most vulnerable patients need. Providing and optimizing care for patients with complex endocrinologic conditions in both Inpatient and Outpatient settings can greatly increase care plan adherence as well as reduce LOS and system leakage.
STeM’s Maternal-Fetal Medicine providers can diagnose & address high-risk pregnancy complications to increase clinical outcomes for both mother and child. Telemedicine can increase access to quality womens care and can make all the difference for families from all walks of life.
STeM’s Orthopedic telemedicine solution offers the opportunity to have your patient connect with a board-certified surgeon tailored to help their musculoskeletal condition when a specialist is not available. Over 80% of orthopedic injuries can be initially diagnosed through STeMs Orthopedic telemedicine solution.
Utilizing STeM’s orthopedic telemedicine services allows hospitals, health systems, and ambulatory outpatient clinics the opportunity to have additional resources to expand service to the communities they serve.
STeM’s Vascular Surgeons can support your clinical teams by caring for patients with vascular diseases or challenges. By coordinating & working with your team, our providers can help provide world-class care to your patient base and give relief to your current providers so they can focus on intra and perioperative care plans.
ENT telemedicine has opened doors by providing real-time consultations that involve video teleconferencing to provide real-time interaction between the patient, referring health care provider, and the ENT consultant. ENT telemedicine can help a variety of patients virtually.
ENT Telemedicine will not replace the need for the patient to be seen by a specialist in all cases, however with the rich digital https://specialisttelemed.com/wp-content/themes/stem/assets/images, synthesized with other data from the patient’s test results, (e.g., an audiogram and tympanogram) the consultant is enabled determine whether a visit to the specialist is necessary or if care can be initiated. Also, based on the consultation, medical management can be recommended by the consultant and prescribed by the referring health care provider.
In addition to dialysis clinic oversight, Specialist TeleMed can provide Inpatient and Outpatient care to patients affected by acute kidney injury, medical complications of chronic kidney disease, and treatment of various chronic medical conditions with kidney dysfunction as a confounding issue.
STeM’s Tele-Psychiatry clinicians can provide high-impact psychiatric & behavioral health services for Emergent, Inpatient, and Outpatient care settings. As one of the fastest-growing telemedicine specialties, Tele-Psychiatry can reduce boarding, provide convenience and accessibility, increase patient participation, increase provider and hospital revenue, and increase staff and patient satisfaction.
Wound healing and wound management are prime candidates for tele-wound care. The treatment of skin ulcers requires frequent assessments of local wound status and adjustment of therapy. Tele-wound care offers great potential for the future in chronic wound care. By reducing the need to travel long distances to the hospital or to consult with a physician, tele-wound care can decrease the costs and improve the quality of life for patients with chronic wounds, while still maintaining high standards of wound care.