Rural hospitals struggled to pay for telehealth enterprise software designed primarily for large health systems and lacked staff with the expertise or time to take advantage of non-profit, state and federal grant funding for telehealth initiatives, according to a March 1 press release.
Access4Health, created by Samsung and telehealth providers Vitalchat and Equum Medical, aims to change that by doing the following:
- Utilizing data from the HHS database to target hospitals that face shortages in beds and staff.
- Leveraging Equum Medical’s remote care to rural hospitals.
- Leveraging Vitalchat’s low-cost telehealth software that connects caregivers, patients and families by using existing workflows at rural hospitals.
- Using resources provided by Samsung to help rural hospitals identify eligibility and apply for a wide range of government and non-profit funding programs that target rural health access and health equity.
