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InTouch Health, Mission Health, and Jefferson Health launch telehealth collaboration to address remote access and critical care challengesSANTA BARBARA, Calif., Jan. 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- InTouch Health, the leading enterprise telehealth platform, today announced partnerships with North Carolina-based Mission Health and Pennsylvania-based Jefferson Health to jointly develop new telehealth solutions to improve patient access and quality of care while reducing overall healthcare costs.
After years of working separately with InTouch Health, Jefferson Health and Mission Health will be sharing learnings from past projects and working together to design mutually-beneficial and innovative telehealth programs to address their most pressing healthcare needs. Over five years, the partners will continue their commercial relationships and identify new areas – primarily within acute care and outpatient care – where providers can use telehealth technology to streamline access to care and increase care coordination. Leveraging the scalable InTouch Telehealth Network, a collaborative team from all three organizations will work to develop software and systems applications to support these goals for use by Jefferson, Mission, and the broader healthcare market nationwide. InTouch Health will work with both health systems to create virtual care models across 10 identified use cases, including stroke, sepsis, and acute heart failure. Once developed, those care models will be tested at Jefferson Health, primarily an urban setting, and Mission Health, primarily a suburban/rural setting, to ensure the care pathways and supporting technologies improve patient access and quality of care and are applicable across markets and geographies. "Mission Health is a committed and recognized leader in quality and innovation, and we strive to provide the most advanced and efficiently delivered care possible for all of our patients – no matter their location," said Ronald A. Paulus, MD, President and CEO of Mission Health, a Top 15 Health System for five of the past six years. "In the mostly rural and mountainous counties of western North Carolina, technologies like the InTouch Telehealth Network allow our patients and communities to have the same access to state-of-the-art, highly specialized care as patients in large cities." "Jefferson prides itself on being a 194-year-old institution behaving like a start-up company by understanding that innovation and technology will drive improved access and outcomes for patients," said Stephen K. Klasko, MD, MBA, President and CEO of "InTouch Health is thrilled to work with Mission Health and Jefferson Health – two leading healthcare institutions – to further advance the capabilities of telehealth to improve health systems' ability to virtualize the delivery of care," said Joseph M. DeVivo, InTouch Health Chief Executive Officer. "We look forward to discovering new ways telehealth can help innovate healthcare to drive efficiencies that will improve quality of care and increase both patient and physician satisfaction." Prior to this collaborative effort, Jefferson Health had a long-standing relationship with InTouch Health, leveraging the company's telestroke solution for close to 10 years and serving 30 hospitals in the Jefferson Neuroscience Network. Mission Health has also had a long-standing relationship with InTouch Health providing telehealth services throughout western North Carolina, including one of North Carolina's longest standing telestroke networks as well as telepscyhiatric, tele-hospitalist, and tele-neonatology programs. About InTouch Health About Mission Health About Jefferson Health
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