American Well, a national telehealth provider has announced the initial rollout of a new Telemed Tablet that enhances clinical collaboration within hospitals or large practice settings. The touchscreen telehealth tablet solution will utilize American Well’s patented technology to instantly locate and engage available specialists within the hospital ecosystem.
The portable, slim and bright tablet is designed to encourage all members of a care team, as well as the patient, to participate in the video consult. Used as a handheld or with an optional stand or cart, clinicians will have the ability to facilitate immediate live video visits between them and the remote provider allowing instant specialty cover to any point of care across the organization.
“Simply put, the Telemed Tablet opens the door to a completely different paradigm of availability of medical services and the approach for specialty staffing,” said Roy Schoenberg, MD, CEO of American Well in a statement. “This will impact not only the cost of operating a clinical system, but also the quality, scope and timing of care that can be rendered to a patient at any point in time, at the location where they present.”
Telemed Tablet Key Features
With the Telemed Tablet, hospitals can leverage staff and project specialty care more broadly. Affiliated clinicians, even in community settings, can use the telehealth tablet to tap into available specialists and bring them to a patient’s bedside, the nurses’ station, or to the operating room. This creates a real-time switchboard for provider collaboration in a way that blends naturally into the existing health system workflow and builds on its current personnel assets.
Cleveland Clinic has signed on to pilot the telehealth solution in several of its specialty departments to gain the ability to know when a specialist is available anywhere in their system.
See how American Well’s Telemed Tablet makes telemedicine consults truly immediate, efficient and reliable in this video shown below:
