Tele-Pulmonary
Telepulmonary specialists utilize VeeOne Health’s cloud-based Pulmonary Information System to interpret PACs, spirometry, and SPO2 feed monitors. By reviewing pulmonary function, desaturation, and sleep studies, they can develop or review timely patient treatment plans.
Tele-pulmonologists bring their expertise to the clinical or hospital setting by remotely examining patients and working in concert with on-site team members to deliver care.
Research has found
“Telepulmonology provides a way to support the GPs in interpreting spirometry results, diagnosing patients and making decisions on the treatment of patients. GPs using telepulmonology experience an educational effect and they or their patients feel aided by the answer of the pulmonologist. Telepulmonology also ensures GPs physically refer the right patients to the pulmonologists. Additionally, the results show that telepulmonology, by improving the communication between GP and pulmonologist, prevents unnecessary physical referrals.”
Thijssing, L. et al. (2014). Telepulmonology: Effect on quality and efficiency of care. Respiratory Medicine, 108(2), 314-318.