People living in Eastern Oregon are therefore basically out of luck for receiving the best care within their communities for any of these specialties. The largest regional hospital is St. Charles in Bend, but several hours may be needed for the drive from Burns or a smaller community like Seneca, Oregon. The unanswered question is whether these patients are not even reaching a facility to be treated or if they are dying after being hospitalized. By establishing a telemedicine linkage with rural communities, St. Charles will probably become the tertiary care center of choice while also supporting telemetry monitoring to in-patient cardiology units in Burns and John Day. Cost effectiveness remains an issue, but the benefits of telemedicine in this type of situation seem to be obvious for patients, providers, and third-party payers.
Some valid parallels emerge based on demographic, economic, and social components.
Efforts to define comparable criteria, however, require a stretch of the imagination. In telemedicine, a similar analysis would rely upon the numbers of new and discontinued programs. This sale completes the 21st installation for ISS in Germany and the 29th worldwide. All rights reserved. Please see our legal information page for further details.