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By providing easy access to a reliable telemedicine solution, the service helps the clinic offer better, faster care. This telehealth solution means fewer children's admissions to the hospital, deteriorations in the underlying cardiac status are detected more quickly, and there are fewer delays in providing potentially life-saving treatments.
The Covid-19 pandemic has also made this technology more critical than ever. Throughout the crisis, Clark Clinic's telehealth platform has acted as a lifeline for parents and families of children with heart conditions during isolation at home.
Telehealth has allowed the clinic's young patients, who are at an extremely high risk of infection, to receive the same vital health care and urgent consultations without regular visits to the Belfast medical facility.
Pexip has helped enable broader distribution of the technology, meaning that doctors have been able to monitor patients and perform urgent care consultations from the comfort and safety of their homes. The application has also provided advice and support for parents during this stressful time.
"Telehealth has played a vital role during the Coronavirus pandemic as it has enabled our team to conduct several urgent video consultations for patients at home, which have obviated the need for them to come to the emergency department," said Dr. Brian McCrossan, Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children.
"Parental anxiety has been more heightened than usual due to the pandemic. Therefore we have found that supporting families at home with regular video consultations has helped to reduce stress, reduce health service utilization, and is much appreciated by parents and clinicians alike."
