Wash. hospital partners with TeleHealth

Jeff Byers | | Health Exec | Telehealth
Franciscan Health System, has chosen TeleHealth, a provider of healthcare-grade televisions and interactive patient education, as its interactive patient education and entertainment partner for its new hospital in Enumclaw, Wash. The new facility, St. Elizabeth Hospital, opened Feb. 2, replacing Enumclaw Regional Hospital.

The TeleHealth system’s reporting features will aid the critical-access facility in its goal of achieving a paperless environment,TeleHealth stated.

TeleHealth will provide a four-channel system, which will deliver patient education at  the bedside and will allow staff to access the system from PCs in the facility, according to the Raleigh, N.C.-based company. 

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