Telehealth Services Partnership Enables Remote Physical Examinations

To expand its scope of telehealth services, Carilion Clinic worked with TytoCare to offer remote physical examinations to detect and treat various chronic conditions for patients living primarily in rural areas.

Specializing in telehealth, TytoCare is a company that continuously makes efforts to use artificial intelligence for healthcare enhancement. Carilion Clinic is a non-profit healthcare entity that assists people living within the Blue Ridge and Southwest regions of Virginia.

Together, TytoCare and Carilion Clinic acknowledged the severe shortage of primary care physicians in rural communities. Although a large portion of the Carilion Clinic clientele consists of rural residents, the organization believes that TytoCare will be very helpful in expanding telehealth to provide for a larger quantity of patients at a faster rate.

"We're thrilled to partner with TytoCare, an innovative telehealth solution that provides our physicians with the clinical data crucial to diagnosing and treating patients remotely," Carilion Senior Vice President & CMIO Stephen A. Morgan, MD, said in a press release. "We're excited to bring these telehealth capabilities to rural communities that have historically been unable to use this new standard of healthcare."

Following an accountable care organization (ACO) agreement, Carilion plans on using one of its solutions to care for patients with chronic conditions. The organization also plans on using another resource that aims to assist both students and teachers and will also be used in rural schools.

"We're excited to work with Carilion to enhance the quality and scope of telehealth visits for both patients and their physicians through our market-leading solution," said Dedi Gilad, CEO & Co-founder of TytoCare. "As health systems reimagine what primary care looks like in 2022, they quickly understand that more virtual-first options benefit the entire health ecosystem and can be used to increase access to first-rate healthcare regardless of geographic region."

Previous collaborations intended to increase access to telehealth services among underserved populations.

For example, Northwell Health worked with a combat medicine organization called Doctors Without Borders to assist Ukraine medically early this year. Thanks to $210,000 in funding, Northwell shipped medical supplies to those residing in Ukraine. Northwell also carried out a two-phase initiative consisting of various mobile platforms and high-fidelity telehealth systems.

In May 2022, UC Davis Health worked with BioIntelliSense to enhance remote patient monitoring services by implementing a data-driven clinical intelligence platform. Through this effort, the organizations hoped that resources will be more accessible and that low-income and rural communities will have less difficulty accessing resources.