Enhancing the quality of life through the Partners For Telehealth Solutions (PFTHS) Pilot program is the important goal for which we are committed. The organization is working to fully integrate telemedicine into systems to improve quality, equity and affordability of healthcare throughout the United States. We will promote professional, ethical and equitable improvement in healthcare delivery though telecommunications and informed technology. The organization is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia and began being established in approximately 2012. Partners For Telehealth Solutions (PFTHS) connects physicians to patients and healthcare organizations in remote and underserved areas, as well as urban areas. Through a distributed network of high-definition quality video, audio and peripheral equipment, PFTHS establishes a powerfully link to doctors, hospitals and clinics to bring expert consultation instantly to areas typically lacking the resources to provide that expertise. Healthcare organizations and physicians use PFTHS’ programs and services to:
-Increase patient access to specialists and improve the delivery of treatment.
-Enable more effective monitoring of patients’ health for more timely intervention and care.
-Use clinicians’ time more efficiently, improving their working lives and reducing travel costs and time for patients and clinicians.
-Increase efficiency by transferring patients at the appropriate time after a specialist’s recommendation.
-Increase revenues to healthcare organizations as well as providers. PFTHS’ management and operations expertise can establish telehealth/ telemedicine programs in nearly any specialty, to include: cardiology, neurology, orthopedics, pediatric and mental health care. Depending on your organization’s requirements, PFTHS can customize the right program, ensuring usage of the services and clinical results. The key difference with PFTHS lies in our ability to not only install the proper hardware and software, but in providing ongoing training and project management to deliver your expected return on investment efficiencies. Solutions for Urban Communities
Telehealth is commonly used to connect remote patients and providers to urban based care, it may be surprising that rates of overall telehealth utilization do not differ significantly between urban and rural hospitals. A likely explanation could be that urban hospitals are delivering these services to rural hospitals in a “hub and spoke” business arrangement. However, current analyses did show differences between urban and rural hospitals in the type of telehealth services they use. In particular, urban hospitals and prospective payment systemhospitals were more likely to implement telehealth in their cardiology/stroke/heart attack programs, while rural and critical access hospitals were more likely to implement telehealth in their emergency department and radiology department.
