SANTA BARBARA, Calif.,
March 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- InTouch Health, the leading specialty telehealth enterprise
provider, today announced the expansion of its relationship with
Dignity Health, one of the largest health systems in the nation.
This alignment will extend the InTouch specialist telehealth
services already in use by Dignity Health's acute care settings
into its post-acute and ambulatory facilities.
As health care organizations move from volume-based to
value-based care, telehealth enables the delivery of medicine at
every touchpoint in the patient care continuum – from home to
transport to point of care, and finally home again. This expanded
relationship allows Dignity Health to utilize equipment
specifically designed for the outpatient setting and strengthen
analytic capabilities in order to demonstrate improvements in
quality and cost as patients receive care in multiple
settings.
"Our mission at Dignity Health is to deliver compassionate,
high-quality, affordable health services, and we see telehealth as
a crucial step forward. InTouch has long been a go-to partner for
its telehealth offering in high-acuity settings, and we're excited
to expand use into our post-acute and ambulatory settings," said
Janice Favorite, senior director,
strategy and business development, Dignity Health. "InTouch's
highly-reliable services are easy to deploy, easy to scale and
interoperable with our electronic health record (EHR) and picture
archiving and communication systems (PACS). Most importantly,
implementation does not require the setup of additional IT
infrastructure or development of new software as it leverages the
same physician portal in use today for both acute and post-acute
settings. We are confident that this expansion of telehealth
applications will further transform our patient care and enable
better outcomes beyond discharge."
"It has been our privilege to work with Dignity Health for many
years, connecting medical devices, networks and workflows. Its
leaders are visionaries in expanding the utility of telehealth to
transform the way medicine is practiced," said Joseph M. DeVivo, CEO of InTouch
Health. "We believe telehealth is reinventing health care by
connecting patients and providers to expand access to affordable,
quality care, and improving the way the next generation of patients
experiences health care."
Powered by new software, tablet and cart options, InTouch's
Telehealth Network and Services can extend to any patient location
with a laptop, tablet or a fully-integrated solution designed for a
specific clinical case, which brings diagnostic tools and multiple
providers to the patient encounter. The FDA Class I listed medical
devices and HIPAA-compliant and secure cloud networking platform
not only extend specialist coverage to ambulatory care settings,
but also work seamlessly and safely within a hospital's
firewall.
About Dignity Health
Dignity Health, one of the
nation's largest health care systems, is a 22-state network of more
than 9,000 physicians, 62,000 employees, and 400 care centers,
including hospitals, urgent and occupational care, imaging centers,
home health, and primary care clinics. Headquartered in
San Francisco, Dignity Health is
dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality, and affordable
patient-centered care with special attention to the poor and
underserved. In FY16, Dignity Health provided $2.2 billion in charitable care and services. For
more information, please visit our website
at www.dignityhealth.org. You can also follow us
on Twitter and Facebook.
About InTouch Health
InTouch Health provides its world
class 24/7 monitored InTouch Telehealth Network, comprised of
FDA-cleared and listed telehealth systems, clinical workflow
solutions and software, and managed services to hospitals and
health care systems for the delivery of clinical care, anytime,
anywhere. Today, InTouch Health supports more than 130 health care
systems, 5,800 network users and 1,600 care locations around the
world as they deploy telehealth programs across their enterprises.
InTouch Health has surpassed 850,000 network sessions, and 760,000
potentially life-saving telehealth sessions over the InTouch
Telehealth Network, and is forecasted to manage more than 270,000
clinical sessions in 2017. Kainos Evolve (LSE: KNOS) Integrated
Care, a cloud-based integrated care solution, supports InTouch
Health's clinical workflow platform.
Corporate Contact:
Stephen
Pedroff
Vice President Communications, InTouch Health
spedroff@intouchhealth.com
(805) 866-1962
Media Contact:
Kevin
McClelland
Senior Vice President, Edelman
Kevin.McClelland@edelman.com
(404) 277-8580
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