Improvements in Telehealth Kiosks; Tampa General Deploys New Version for Employee Health

in a recent note, I discussed the cost savings associated with telemedicine using data collected byAnthem (see:Anthem Citing the Cost Savings of Providing Telehealth Services for Members). I want to follow up on this with reference to a recent article about the increasing sophistication of the telehealth kiosks that are being deployed by Tampa General internally for use by employees (see:Tampa General, OnMed launch telehealth station that can diagnose patients). Below is an excerpt from it:Staff atTampa General Hospital (TGH) now have a new way to access instant healthcare services via a self-contained telemedicine station located inside the hospital. TGH partnered with....OnMed to be the first to deploy the company's telemedicine station after six years of development.The stations feature advanced technology including thermal imaging, ultraviolet sanitization and facial recognition to operate as self-contained, unstaffed exam rooms....TGH is a 1,000-bed hospital with more than 8,000 full-time employees and 1,000 members on its medical staff....The unstaffed OnMed Station pods allow users to have real-time consultations with a doctor or advanced practice provider via high-definition video and audio.The station even allows doctors to prescribe and dispense hundreds of common medications through a secure, automated vault.....The stations include technology to measure patients' height, weight and body mass index, thermal imaging to read body temperature and diagnose infe...

Source: Lab Soft News - October 24, 2019 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Clinical Lab Testing Diagnostics Healthcare Information Technology Healthcare Innovations Medical Consumerism Medical Research Point-of-Care Testing Quality of Care Telemedicine Test Kits and Home Testing Source Type: blogs