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Exclusive: Huge Service Gaps Remain Despite Positive U.S. Labor Stats on Healthcare Hiring
May 2, 2023 | News Stories
By Tami Kamin Meyer If the positive news released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics regarding healthcare hiring in March continues to trend, the once-dire employment situation in the industry may be easing. According to the Labor Department’s April 7 report, the...
Virtual Care: Meeting Patients Where They Are
Mar 31, 2023 | Behavioral Health
By Kristi Sidel, Director of Behavioral Health, Avel eCare (Published in Mental Health Weekly, Issue 33, Volume 10) With virtual behavioral health care, we can address crisis levels of need while truly meeting patients where they are in their journey. - Kristi Sidel...
EMS Workers in Elk Point Utilizing New Technology on Emergency Calls
Mar 27, 2023 | News Stories
By Ervin Dohmen Published: Mar. 26, 2023 at 4:44 PM CDT SIOUX CITY (KTIV) -South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem signed legislation to approve the use of funds for Emergency Medical Services. This comes all in an effort to save lives. Telemedicine in motion is a new...
Redefining rural health care; $31 million hospital expansion in Lake City nears completion
Jan 23, 2023 | News Stories
LAKE CITY — After the Buffalo Bills’ safety Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest on the football field on Jan. 2, it was a shocking reminder that seconds count during a health emergency. While the NFL is far removed from Stewart Memorial Community Hospital (SMCH),...
AMR To Roll Out Avel E-CARE Telemedicine System In Ambulances
Jan 19, 2023 | News Stories
kccrradio.com Link to the story: https://www.kccrradio.com/2023/01/18/amr-to-roll-out-avel-e-care-telemedicine-system-in-ambulances/ Officials from Avel E-CARE were in Pierre Wednesday night to give Pierre American Medical Response workers a training and demonstration...
Avel eCare Announces The Acquisition Of NightWatch To Expand Pharmacy Telemedicine Services
Jan 17, 2023 | News Stories
By: Midwest Medical Edition Avel eCare, the nation’s leading provider of clinician-to-clinician telemedicine services, today announced the acquisition of NightWatch, a West Virginia-based company that provides remote pharmacy services to hospitals, clinics and nursing...
Telemedicine Gets a Doctor’s Eyes in the Ambulance in S.D.
Jan 17, 2023 | News Stories
South Dakota’s new Telemedicine in Motion program mitigates a critical shortage of experienced paramedics by connecting a doctor or nurse via video and audio to the paramedic in the back of the ambulance. January 10, 2023 | Jim McKay, Editor It can be a long ambulance...
Surge Protector: How Telemedicine Can Help Ease the Strain of the Spike in Respiratory Illnesses
Jan 4, 2023 | Blogs
Tyler Price, MD | Medical Director of Emergency I have had the opportunity to experience a wide variety of cases during the course of my career as an Emergency Medicine physician. From interesting and complex to the more basic and routine. From severe trauma cases and...
Telemedicine program assists ambulance service
Dec 27, 2022 | News Stories
By Phil Torrres Local emergency medical services are set to receive some potentially life saving technology as part of a state-sponsored program. Gov. Kristi Noem’s office, along with Avel eCare are calling the new initiative “Telemedicine in Motion.” “This initiative...
Telehealth is closing the gap for rural sexual assault exams
Dec 27, 2022 | News Stories
Arielle Zionts, Kaiser Health News Originally published by The 19th. Amanda Shelley was sitting in her dentist’s waiting room when she received a call from the police. A local teenage girl had been sexually assaulted and needed an exam. Shelley, a nurse in rural Eagle...
4 Ways Telepsychiatry Can Help Hospitals Address the Mental Health Crisis
Dec 20, 2022 | Blogs
You’ve heard it in the news. You’ve seen it on T.V. You’ve likely witnessed it first hand: our nation is facing a mental health crisis of unprecedented proportions. What’s a significant factor fueling this crisis? Lack of access. And the COVID pandemic has only...
1922 – 2022: 100 Years of Diabetes Care
Dec 13, 2022 | Blogs
How Avel eCare Celebrates and Carries Forward the Legacy and Innovation of Treating Diabetes Diabetes is a chronic illness that can be extremely disruptive for both the afflicted and their family. These disruptions are only amplified when those suffering from diabetes...