The Institute for Digital Health & Innovation (IDHI) supports UAMS Health with more than 30 digital health programs that use high-definition video and other technology to improve access to physicians with expertise in specialties such as stroke care, maternal fetal medicine and trauma. The institute helps address a variety of unique health care needs in Arkansas such as correctional facility telemedicine that offers obstetrical support for women in the Arkansas corrections system, virtual urgent care through UAMS HealthNow, a high-risk pregnancy consultative service and sickle cell support for primary care physicians across the state.
The institute’s statewide Stroke Program partners with more than 60 health care institutions across Arkansas to deliver neurology consultations in emergency departments across the state by using digital health to connect potential stroke patients with specialists at UAMS who offer on-the-spot stroke diagnosis and treatment. Without the IDHI Stroke Program, many facilities across the state would not be able to provide life-saving treatment to stroke patients.
The institute’s TeleSANE program allows hospitals across the state to connect with consultants specially trained in caring for patients who have experienced a sexual assault. Patients receive an evidence-based, trauma-informed medical forensic exam, connections to resources and after-care follow-up guidance.
The Brain Injury Program offers services to Arkansans living with brain injury. Additionally, the institute offers consultative services with burn surgeons, hand trauma surgeons and other specialists, and it supports a trauma image repository for patients transferred from Arkansas hospitals to a higher level of care. The care team at the receiving facility can view the uploaded images and develop a plan of care before the patient arrives.