Paul Hughes, emergency medical services coordinator at MaineHealth Memorial Hospital, utilizes telehealth technology to facilitate rapid remote stroke consultations, ensuring patients receive timely and specialized care when every second counts. (COURTESY PHOTO)
Leigh Copsey, RN, clinical supervisor of the Family Birth Center (left), and Dr. Kathryn Fekete, MaineHealth Memorial Hospital pediatrician, demonstrate the use of TeleNICU technology. This innovative telehealth service connects local providers with neonatologists in real time, ensuring newborns in distress receive expert care without delay. (COURTESY PHOTO)
Paul Hughes, emergency medical services coordinator at MaineHealth Memorial Hospital, utilizes telehealth technology to facilitate rapid remote stroke consultations, ensuring patients receive timely and specialized care when every second counts. (COURTESY PHOTO)
Leigh Copsey, RN, clinical supervisor of the Family Birth Center (left), and Dr. Kathryn Fekete, MaineHealth Memorial Hospital pediatrician, demonstrate the use of TeleNICU technology. This innovative telehealth service connects local providers with neonatologists in real time, ensuring newborns in distress receive expert care without delay. (COURTESY PHOTO)
CONWAY — When a patient presenting with stroke symptoms arrives at MaineHealth Memorial Hospital's emergency department, time is of the essence. It could take hours to arrange for medical transport and get that patient to a tertiary care center like MaineHealth Maine Medical Center to see a stroke neurologist. Using telehealth, these patients can receive this specialized care if it is necessary in less than 30 minutes.
While telehealth is often associated with remote home visits, MaineHealth Memorial Hospital also uses it to enhance on-site care. Using remote consult technology, MaineHealth specialists can offer local care teams expert advice at the bedside or in the exam room. These innovations ensure faster access to emergency stroke treatment, neonatal care and patient safety, providing expert consultation.
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