“ PRIOR TO COVID-19 OUR TELEMEDICINE PRESENCE WAS MINIMAL - WE WERE ONLY DOING ABOUT 200 VISITS A YEAR - BUT THIS MOVED VERY , VERY QUICKLY AND BY MID-MARCH WE HAD LAUNCHED A FULL-SCALE PROGRAM AND WE WERE DOING ALMOST 600 VISITS A DAY AND WOUND UP DOING ALMOST 70,000 TELEHEALTH VISITS ”
CHILDREN ’ S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY
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Henderson and Adam Gold | Choc , Partners and the Future of Healthcare and Technology
The CHOC Link More than two million children across four counties are now benefiting from telemedicine as their parents ’ can now access their electronic medical records ( EMR ), make virtual appointments and check their billing and health plans on a system called the CHOC Link .
John Henderson , Vice President & Chief Information Officer highlighted how the use of telemedicine on the CHOC Link accelerated during the pandemic .
“ Prior to COVID-19 our telemedicine presence was minimal - we were only doing about 100 visits a year - but this moved very , very quickly and by mid-March we had launched a full-scale program and we were doing almost 600 visits a day and wound up doing almost 70,000 telehealth visits ,” he commented .
As CHOC has focused on getting our patients coming back to in person visits , our telemedicine visits are now averaging 350
“ PRIOR TO COVID-19 OUR TELEMEDICINE PRESENCE WAS MINIMAL - WE WERE ONLY DOING ABOUT 200 VISITS A YEAR - BUT THIS MOVED VERY , VERY QUICKLY AND BY MID-MARCH WE HAD LAUNCHED A FULL-SCALE PROGRAM AND WE WERE DOING ALMOST 600 VISITS A DAY AND WOUND UP DOING ALMOST 70,000 TELEHEALTH VISITS ”
JOHN HENDERSON , VICE PRESIDENT & CIO , CHOC
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