Telemedicine Platforms

Saudi Arabia built the world's largest virtual hospital, and we haven't even heard of it. It connects 224 hospitals and treats 400,000 patients a year without a single physical bed. It's called Seha Virtual Hospital in Riyadh, and it just earned a Guinness World Record for being the largest virtual healthcare provider in the world. But how can a hospital be “virtual”? How does it work? → Imagine you live in a small town with only a basic local hospital. → It has doctors and equipment. But if you need a cardiologist or neurologist, you travel 6+ to a bigger city. In urgent situations, people lose lives. → With Seha, specialists treat you remotely through your local hospital - reviewing scans, diagnosing conditions, prescribing treatment - while local staff execute it. That's the model. Specialist expertise delivered through existing hospitals. And here's what makes it work: ▶️ AI prioritizes urgent cases - analyzes CT scans and imaging to rank who needs immediate intervention ▶️ IoT monitors patients remotely - heart failure patients wear devices that alert doctors before hospitalization is needed ▶️ Integrated health records - manages prescriptions and reports across all 224 hospitals in real-time The results? - ICU patients now stay an average of 4 days instead of weeks.  - Stroke patients get CT scans within 25 minutes of arrival. - Treatment starts in 28 minutes.  - Radiology reports in 2 hours. This isn't telemedicine where you video-call a doctor from home. This is expertise delivered through your local hospital without the specialist being physically there. It proves you don't need cardiologists and neurologists in every town. You just need good internet and hospitals willing to collaborate. Do you think virtual hospitals could solve specialist shortages in rural areas? #Entrepreneurship #healthtech #innovation

We were delivering thousands of psychiatric visits monthly with no waiting rooms. The secret wasn't technology. When I co-founded Frontier Psychiatry, there was significant doubt that virtual care would work in rural areas. "You need to see patients in person for mental health," many insisted. Three years later, we had better outcomes than traditional clinics. Here's what actually made it work: 1/ We eliminated the right friction ↳ No commute for patients in rural areas ↳ No time off work for appointments ↳ No sitting in stigmatizing waiting rooms ↳ But kept the human connection rituals 2/ We added human touches ↳ Providers know the patient's history when they sign on ↳ Same provider every visit (98%+ continuity) ↳ human touch with intake and scheduling ↳ effortless to reach the care team 3/ We refused to play the typical game ↳ No cherry-picking "easy" cases ↳ Took Medicaid, uninsured, complex conditions ↳ Built wraparound services - psychiatry to social work ↳ Became the provider of last resort (proudly) 4/ We created psychological safety at scale ↳ Same provider team for everything ↳ Therapy, meds, care coordination - all in one place ↳ No bouncing between specialists ↳ Patients finally had a behavioral health home The technology was just Zoom. Nothing fancy. But we discovered something profound: removing physical barriers allowed us to add emotional presence. Our no-show rate dropped to 10% (industry average 25-50%) Patient satisfaction hit 94%. Hospitalizations decreased 38%. Not because of innovative technology. Because we used basic technology to be more human. The biggest surprise? Our providers preferred it too. No commute meant they could do a morning yoga class. Seeing patients in their home environment revealed context impossible to gather in sterile offices. The flexibility reduced burnout. We thought we were building a telehealth company. We actually built a connection company that happened to use video. The future of virtual care isn't about better technology. It's about using technology to be better humans. --- ⁉️ What makes virtual healthcare feel human to you? What ruins it? ♻️ Repost if you believe healthcare needs more humanity, not just more technology 👉 Follow me (Reza Hosseini Ghomi, MD, MSE) for lessons from scaling virtual care

Looking to reduce 30-day readmission rates? A virtual transition of care clinic for high-risk patients immediately after discharge can help you get there. Recently, I had the pleasure of working with a group of researchers from UC San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Health on a new study, published in JMIR Publications Informatics, that found patients seen virtually within a week of discharge had a 14.9% 30-day readmission rate, compared to 20.1% for the benchmark group. TOPLINE: ➡️ One-time virtual visits translate to better recovery at home, lower costs, and improved access for high-risk patients. UC San Diego Health launched our virtual transition of care clinic (VToC) in 2021. Supported by 12 hospitalists, two medical assistants, one pharmacist and an on-demand interpreter service, VToC has been instrumental in helping to reduce readmissions. "Our clinic is a one-time, virtual visit with a patient immediately after their hospital stay to ensure we’re doing all we can to mitigate risk," said lead author Sarah Horman, professor of medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine and a Joan & Irwin Jacobs Center for Health Innovation @ UC San Diego Health  faculty affiliate. The study involved more than 25,000 participants cared for at UC San Diego Health from Sept. 1, 2021 to Sept. 17, 2024. Of the participants, 2,314 were seen in the virtual clinic and 23,129 had standard follow-up care as the study’s benchmark group. Co-authors ➡️ Milla Kviatkovsky, DO, MPH, Chad VanDenBerg, FACHE, John Bell, Christopher Longhurst & Edward Castillo, all with UC San Diego Health. Learn more about VToC and this important study ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/eYyy9HZd #telemedicine #telehealth #virtualcare #virtualhealthcare #UCSDHealth #QualityInCare #LeadershipInHealthcare #ContinuousImprovement #HealthCareExcellence

Virtual Neurology Care Is Cutting Wait Times Seeing a neurologist in the U.S. can still take four to six months—even in major cities. For people living with migraine, epilepsy, concussion, or chronic pain, that delay can derail work, family life, and health. In my latest Forbes article, I report on why that’s finally starting to change—and what virtual neurology care reveals about how specialty medicine is evolving. A few takeaways 👇 ✨ Neurology remains one of medicine’s most data-rich yet least accessible specialties ✨ Patients often fill the gaps themselves while waiting months for care ✨Elizabeth Burstein, CEO and cofounder of Neura Health, built a virtual neurology clinic after facing a six-month wait herself ✨ Virtual neurology care is cutting access timelines from months to days in some cases ✨ Migraine care highlights how access gaps disproportionately affect women 🧠♀️ ✨ Lisa Suennen of American Heart Association Ventures explains why brain health and women’s health are converging This isn’t a story about convenience or apps. It’s about access, continuity, and whether specialty care can adapt to real patient needs as neurologist shortages grow. 👉 Read the full Forbes article and share what stood out to you. https://lnkd.in/edk-ckJP

Is your #health system, #hospital, or #medical practice struggling to provide access to high-quality care for #pediatric patients? Particularly for families in rural communities, pediatric care has reached a crisis point, according to Patricia Hayes, MD, #CMO of Imagine Pediatrics.   "We need to remove barriers to care," Hayes says. "Even if you fill a clinic with more pediatricians, if a family struggles with transportation to get their child to an appointment or a family doesn't know when they are supposed schedule an appointment because they don't have the tools to coordinate the fragmented and confusing care they have to navigate, just putting more clinicians into the system doesn't fix the problems that families are facing."   Imagine Pediatrics' care model features 24/7 access to virtual care as well as offering home-based visits staffed by nurse practitioners, nurses, and paramedics. The home-based care staff is supported by pediatricians, pediatric emergency medicine physicians, and palliative care physicians depending on the needs of a family. The Imagine Pediatrics care model is designed to serve medically complex children.   "We put an emphasis on virtual care, which is an effective way to get into the homes of families and address the challenge of access to care," Hayes says. "For families, being able to get an answer to a question or to get an issue addressed virtually at any time of day seven days a week is a huge asset for families who struggle to navigate access to traditional 9-to-5 clinics."   Imagine Pediatrics' ability to get virtual care into the home is crucial to providing specialty care for families in rural communities, Hayes explains.   "Most pediatric specialty practices are located in urban areas, and they have long wait lists for patients," Hayes says. "We can provide specialty care in the home virtually and refill medications when families are waiting to see a specialist in the office setting." Read the full HealthLeaders about how Imagine Pediatrics is rising to the challenge of serving pediatric patients at this link: https://lnkd.in/gvANJkAQ

🌟 Innovating Adult ADHD Care Through Group Consultations 🌟 At WellBN, we’re rethinking how primary care supports adults with ADHD. Our monthly ADHD Group Consultations demonstrate how virtual group clinics can improve patient care while optimising practice resources. Key highlights: ✅ Efficiency: Common questions addressed collectively, reducing demand on 1:1 GP appointments. ✅ Standardisation: Evidence-based guidance ensures all patients receive consistent advice on medication, coping strategies, and lifestyle management. ✅ Peer Support: Structured discussions help reduce isolation and build patient confidence. ✅ Operational Benefits: Streamlined referral pathways, better use of clinician time, and improved adherence to care protocols. Outcomes we’ve seen: ✅ Increased patient confidence and self-management ✅ Reduced follow-up appointments for common ADHD concerns ✅ Improved efficiency and resource utilisation across the practice Takeaway for practices: Group consultations are not just a patient engagement tool—they are a strategic approach to improve clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, and patient satisfaction. Well-structured, virtual group clinics can be applied to ADHD, menopause, long-term conditions, and more. At WellBN Surgery, we’re demonstrating that with the right leadership, planning, and governance, group consultations can transform primary care delivery. #PrimaryCareInnovation #GPPractice #GroupConsultations #ADHD #HealthcareLeadership #OperationalExcellence #WellBN

#125: #AIRadarDaily — Confido Health There is a quiet, exhausting reality behind every medical specialty clinic. Healt hcare was simply never designed for scale: talent is scarce, clinical burnout is at an all-time high, and administrative costs compound with every patient visit. Front-desk teams spend their days trapped in endless phone queues — rescheduling appointments, verifying insurance benefits, chasing prescription refills, and managing post-surgery instructions. We ask clinicians to deliver deeply empathetic care, yet we force the practices around them to operate as overloaded human switchboards. The result is a broken access layer where patients wait on hold and staff are completely overwhelmed. It takes builders with deep operational empathy and the technical rigor to turn complex patient operations into scalable software to solve this at the root. That is exactly what Chetan Reddy and Vichar Shroff did when they founded Confido Health in 2022. With Confido, the team is building a deeply intelligent, autonomous operations layer that works across the front, mid, and back office for US healthcare providers and surgical clinics. Confido deploys HIPAA-compliant voice and workflow AI agents that integrate directly into existing EHR and practice management systems without requiring a rip-and-replace. These agents answer every call on the first ring and autonomously complete the underlying workflow — whether that is booking appointments, running prior authorizations, checking eligibility, or handling pre- and post-surgery patient instructions. The true moat here is end-to-end execution across high-volume specialties. Confido doesn't just route messages; it writes back directly to the chart and turns messy payer interactions into structured data that reveals exactly where revenue is leaking. By delivering three times more patient touchpoints while cutting inbound call volume by 60%, the platform saves hospital staff at least two hours every single day. It shifts the paradigm from overwhelmed manual triage to effortless, 24/7 patient-first care. The market? High-volume specialty clinics — from surgical centers and nephrology to ophthalmology and multi-location dental groups across the US — that desperately need to scale their patient access without linearly scaling their headcount. Seeing homegrown founders head-down, quietly architecting the heavy-duty infrastructure that makes US healthcare accessible and human again, is profoundly inspiring. They are giving clinics their momentum and their capacity to care back. Every founder dreams of reaching orbit. Sometimes, all it takes is the right launch window. If you are building an AI-first healthcare startup and looking to experience the US market firsthand, applications for AIBoomi Vertical Velocity Cohort 2 are now live: https://lnkd.in/gnBbkA7g Let's celebrate the builders. w/ Jay Ingle #HealthTech #VoiceAI #ProductNation

Years ago I watched a man die of prostate cancer in rural Washington. His PSA blood test was "normal" according to the lab reference but high for a man of his age. No urologist in his town. No expert to step in and say "this isn't right." I saw him months and years too late. He was going to live a few more years, but this very treatable cancer was now incurable. I couldn't save him. But I never forgot him. Last week VirtuCare launched two new clinics. One in Lake Chelan, Washington. One in Georgetown, Kentucky. One community lost their urologist and was facing a gap in care. The other had wait times stretching months just to see a specialist. Both now have coverage. Patients are being seen. Physicians who wanted consistent, meaningful work have found it. Two hospital communities are a little less broken than they were last week. This is why we built VirtuCare. Not for a press release. Not for a LinkedIn post. (OK. Maybe a little for the LinkedIn post. I digress.) For the patient who deserves a real shot at a diagnosis. For the doctor who still wants to practice medicine without losing their mind. For the rural hospital trying to do right by their community with the budget they actually have. We're not done. Not even close.

1 in 4 hospital readmissions come from heart and lung patients. For clinicians, that means constant firefighting. For patients, it’s avoidable trips back to the ER. That’s where integrated specialty care platforms are making an impact. By combining  - remote monitoring - data-driven insights  - clinician-guided virtual support care teams can spot exacerbations before they turn critical. It’s not just about tracking vitals. It’s about connecting the dots between symptoms, behavior, and intervention.| With AI-enabled alerts and patient engagement tools, cardiologists and pulmonologists can- ∙ act early,  ∙ reduce flare-ups, ∙ improve adherence. One of my provider friends saw about a 30% reduction in hospitalizations with this approach. I believe this can improve patient satisfaction significantly. Technology is after all extending care beyond the clinic walls. Should proactive care be the new normal for chronic conditions? Share your take! #DigitalHealth #ChronicCare #AIinHealthcare #PatientMonitoring #CardiopulmonaryCare