Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., is poised to launch a new virtual clinic designed to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions by monitoring high-risk patients remotely, according to an article in the Brattleboro Reformer.
The services offered at the new virtual clinic will be "reverse engineered" to find the services that best serve the medical center's patient population, Ethan Berke, MD, director of primary care and population health innovation at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, told the Reformer.
"We're asking 'why does the patient always have to come to us, and are there some things that can be done remotely that will add value or improve outcomes,'" Dr. Berke said in the report.
The medical center plans to hire 20 medical assistants and 10 pharmacy technicians to initially staff the center, according to the report.
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