Article Excerpt: Tacoma, Washington-based Franciscan Hospital Systems, is partnering with Seattle telemedicine company Carena to offer virtual urgent care visits to all prospective patients in the hospital system’s coverage area. Franciscan has seven hospitals and 100 clinics, covering most of the Puget Sound area of Washington state.
“The value proposition from the system is if we can take care of people virtually, that offloads our already strained physicians’ capacity,” Cliff Robertson, Franciscan’s chief operating officer, told MobiHealthNews.
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