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Types of Telemedicine

Environments: Impact on Exam Rooms Needed

(Regardless of new construction or renovation)

1 Remote Provider to Remote Patient
@ Home (both)
Telehealth Center (provider) Excluding COVID-19 hot zones, numerous emergency departments have Assuming no changes
experienced volume declines of 50% or more since the beginning of the
Employee Based (patient & work) year.* Many of the patients no longer presenting to the ED are the low- to patient panel
acuity patients we’ve been trying to redirect to primary care and urgent sizes, the average
2 Remote Provider to Clinic Patient (often specialty consults) care for years. While this wasn’t the motivation we anticipated using to six-provider family
@ Home (provider) drive the shift, the momentum is in place, and it’s up to providers, insurers,
Telehealth Center (provider) and regulators to provide the incentives to keep it going. medicine practice
needs one fewer
3 Clinic Provider to Remote Patient at Home Assuming the momentum continues, our ambulatory care clinics clinic exam room
and urgent care centers will see increased demand. However, these for every 10%* shift
4 Remote Provider to Remote Provider (consults) ambulatory sites will see only a small portion of that demand in their
Includes Sharing Visuals / Data Exchange of volume to virtual
physical clinics, because we believe telehealth, in all forms, will change visits.
current care delivery forever.
*Source: Catalyst
* Source confidential client