Doctor Matt Lyon of Wellstar MCG Health discusses how the hospital is pioneering digital health to reach even the most rural areas in Georgia, US
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Doctor Matt Lyon of Wellstar MCG Health discusses how the hospital is pioneering digital health to reach even the most rural areas in Georgia, US
Wellstar MCG Health is a world-class healthcare network, offering comprehensive primary, specialty and subspecialty care in Augusta, Georgia. The institution provides skilled, compassionate care to its patients while conducting leading-edge clinical research and fostering the medical education and training of tomorrow’ s healthcare practitioners using digital means.
Doctor Matt Lyon, an Emergency Medicine physician for the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, has worked at the institution for a number of years and is currently implementing virtual care programmes, alongside Lauren Williams Hopkins, AVP Virtual Care and Community Engagement. The pair discusses the various programmes the institution offers, as well as how technology is revolutionising the healthcare system.
Augusta University Health’ s Virtual Care and Care at Home Programs Wellstar MCG Health has been performing telehealth for several years, with its journey beginning in 2003, with the tele-stroke programme, started by the current Dean of the Medical College of Georgia, Dr David Hess.
The foundation that the tele-stroke team formed paved the way for the institution
4 augustahealth. org