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Controlling Prison Healthcare Costs with Telemedicine

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When you think of a typical telemedicine visit, you might picture a patient in a rural town communicating with a big-city specialist, or a primary care provider triaging with an emergency room department. But there’s another, less visible realm where telemedicine has transformed costing savings and patient outcomes: correctional facilities.

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Driving Transformation through Academic Medical Centers

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Academic medical centers also train future physicians on new and advanced ways to care for patients – so it’s not surprising that they’re leading the charge on telemedicine adoption. Because they are fueled partly by innovation, many academic medical centers strive to build telemedicine fluency in the next generation of providers.