Access TeleCare published a study indicating a 7% decrease in the per capita ambulance rate when Uber entered the city in Philadelphia.
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“a study that found that there is a 7% decrease in the per capita ambulance rate when Uber entered the city”
— Chris Gallagher, MD|Access TeleCare team
Company
Access TeleCare
Clinical Excellence in Acute Care Telemedicine
- Industry
- Hospitals and Health Care
- Location
- Dallas, US
- Company size
- 506 employees
Access TeleCare is the national leader in acute specialty telemedicine, having launched more than 2,600 telemedicine programs and partnered with 1 in 5 U.S. hospitals across all 50 states. As a pioneer in tech-enabled virtual care for the last 20+ years, the company has grown to now deliver care in more than 1 million patient encounters annually across multiple specialty service lines, including behavioral health, neurology, hospitalist medicine, pulmonary and critical care, maternal-fetal medicine, infectious disease, cardiology, and nephrology. The virtual care provided by Access TeleCare is crucial in ensuring timely and high-quality healthcare coverage across a geographic area that represents more than 65% of the U.S. population, approximately 216 million Americans, many of whom live in medically underserved, vulnerable, or rural areas. As the first and longest-standing telemedicine organization to receive The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval in 2006, Access TeleCare is leading the way to a better healthcare delivery system with clinically excellent tech-enabled services.
Founded 2004