Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association
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Emergency department (ED)-based telemedicine has been implemented in many rural hospitals to provide specialty care and expertise to patients with critical time-sensitive conditions. ⋯ Telemedicine decreases ED door-to-provider time, most commonly because the telemedicine provider was the first provider seeing a patient. Among transferred patients, ED LOS at the first hospital was shorter in patients who had telemedicine consulted. Future work will focus on the clinical impact of more timely rural ED care.