Equum Medical
Telehealth-enabled Professional Clinical Services Delivery Company

With the increasing provider and clinician burnout, it has become a challenge for hospitals to do more with less. Furthermore, the growing investment in technology—telehealth— has further disrupted clinical workflows. That’s where Equum Medical can help. The company’s telehealth-enabled care teams bring the right care to the right location. At the center of the Equum value proposition are two core elements: the firms focus on acute patient flow across care venues and its deployment of Clinical Transformation during implementation, which ensures ensuring that the care is frictionless from the bedside to the “webside”and that telehealth is neatly integrated into a newly designed hybrid workflow.

Being a professional clinical services delivery company, Equum Medical leverages telehealth to focus on solving hospital/health system challenges of provider staffing. The company’s client engagement process begins with a needs analysis to evaluate the optimal design of telehealthenabled staffing model to support a prospective strategic partner site. “We meet a customer with a portfolio of professional clinical services that integrates change management into the delivery of the telehealth enabled service,” says Corey Scurlock MD, MBA the founder and CEO of Equum Medical. The company’s unique and proprietary deployment model of clinical care “pods” support the collaborative engagement with a health systems’ existing staff. Equum Medical ensures that the new hybrid model of care is implemented effectively through its clinical transformation process.

Equum Medical’s differentiated delivery model of aligning remote virtual care pods unlocks the potential of provider care delivery anywhereand concentrates on returning clinical joy and experience to practice. The company’s network of virtual care providers positions the customer at the center of a telehealth program, often times with a dedicated pod of clinicians supporting the same customer over many years.

This tenured relationship increases trust and acceptance as well as the ability to deploy incremental telehealth services that build upon the initial deployment to extend telehealthenabled clinical oversight across the entire acute continuum.

Furthermore, Equum Medical recognizes the need to offer a comprehensive services line. They support a health system from the emergency department to ICU to med/surg discharge with a connected and continuous virtual care team and offer specialty services in Transfer Center, Tele-RN, and Tele-Sitter. This increases their significance as a strategic partner of choice and improves the efficiency and outcomes a customer can achieve. For example, a Large Academic Medical Center partnered with Equum Medical to deploy a dedicated intensivist pod to support coverage. The result was improved bedside satisfaction, reduced patient mortality, and improved patient length of stay metrics. In another case, by collaborating with Equum Medical and using their telehealthenabled solution, a rural community hospital achieved improved higher CMI patients. This led to an increase in revenue and community care delivery.

Such has been the prowess that Equum Medical has garnered over the years by helping many such institutions. What differentiates the company is that they are technology agnostic / vendor-neutral and thus are able to integrate quickly within a health system ‘s existing telehealth infrastructure, saving time to service activation and costly “rip and replace” technology changes.

Equum Medical recognizes that virtual care will continue to expand in its healthcare adoption. The company is an early mover in consulting and designing a health system Enterprise Telehealth Maturity Model, which prioritizes interoperable, scalable telehealth programs to virtualize care services across the acute continuum. Equum Medical’s telehealth-enabled suite of professional clinical solutions enables the company to solve care delivery challenges in new areas. Further, its demonstrated model of remote staffing can be extended to additional services and specialty areas to support its customers. “We’ve enabled hospitals and health systems to care for a larger number of patients, improve patient care, improve the lifestyle of their bedside team, and deliver a positive clinical, operational, and financial impact, and will continue to do so in the near future,” concludes Scurlock.