About The Center

Quality health care centers around relationships: people to people connectivity. Telehealth is both a platform and a strategy to include those near and far in quality health care.

The MCG Center for Digital Health is the bridge connecting the resources of a state-wide medical school and an academic medical center to those who have health care needs including the consumer and the provider. The Center is a health care connectivity resource for all of Georgia bringing Patient Care, Research and Education to new locations and populations through our academic missions and service platforms.

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Virtual health care: Has the moment arrived?

December 7, 2023The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Sitting in her apartment in Hephzibah near Augusta, Asia Daniels slid the blood pressure cuff on her arm just as hospital workers taught her. She made note of her vitals. Then, without leaving her home, she sent the information to nurses half an hour away. Daniels is one of about 30 patients being treated remotely by Wellstar MCG Health, formerly known as Augusta University Medical Center, at any given time in a program known as “Virtual Care at Home.” The “telemedicine” patients relay information on their health to medical personnel via virtual care tablets. Without the telehealth service, she said, she would have been stuck with the options of having no care or taking a trip back to the emergency room.

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