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How
eEmergency Works
eEmergecy is
part of Avera eCARE™, a suite of innovative technology
applications developed to access specialized care for rural
hospitals like Oakes Community Hospital. It links two-way
video equipment in local emergency rooms to
emergency-trained physicians at a central hub in Sioux
Falls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This provides
patients immediate access to physician-rendered emergency
care in their local community.
“Board-certified emergency medicine physicians take a team
approach,” says Dr. Don Kosiak, Avera eCARE Services medical
director. “It is best when one of us does the critical
thinking and one of us does the patient care, so eEmergency
is a play out of this team approach in the rural setting,”
Dr. Kosiak explains, noting the access it gives rural
providers, who often practice alone, to an immediate consult
on request. |
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Helping
Patients and Families
Some of the
ways eEmergency supports patient care in the local community
include:
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Providing
the availability of physician-rendered emergency care 24
hours a day, regardless of location. You still see the
local ER Doctors but along with another set of
professional eyes!
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Streamlining access to specialists for better outcomes
for patients with trauma, heart attacks and other
emergency care issues
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Supporting
activation of emergency transport teams as early as
possible, saving seconds . If it’s needed the helicopter
is sent right away without the local team leaving your
bedside.
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Providing
support when the local facility experiences multiple
emergency cases at once
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Reducing
unnecessary transfers
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Assuring
patients’ families access to a specialty consultation at
home
“eEmergency
gives us the ability to extend and enhance the level of
health care in our community,” says Lee Boyles ,
administrator. “It elevates the level of care that we can
support in our Emergency Department for better care in our
community and keep patients here because we have a great
team standing working together at all times – they are at
our fingertips when we need them.” |
