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Chris Gallagher is the founder of Access TeleCare, the nation's largest provider of acute specialty telemedicine. He shares updates on LinkedIn.

Why tele-critical care deserves expansion, not retreat

Chris Gallagher, MD
Physician
June 28, 2026

The narrative in a recent essay on tele-critical care is wrenching, and the case it describes deserves the somber consideration that any preventable death in the intensive care unit (ICU) demands. Its indictment of tele-critical care, however, conflates a single tragic outcome with the totality of an evidence base that, taken as a whole, supports the careful expansion of ICU telemedicine, not its retreat. To frame tele-critical care as …

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Why tele-critical care deserves expansion, not retreat

Hospitals are driving revenue and improving outcomes with telehealth

Chris Gallagher, MD
Health Technology
March 31, 2025

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth has become a household word; Americans have increasingly turned to virtual platforms to connect with their doctors. But what has not become widely known is the role telehealth is playing in hospitals and emergency rooms across the country. From virtual neurology and cardiology to maternal-fetal medicine and behavioral health, specialists are remoting into patient rooms to address life-threatening symptoms—and, in the process, they are reducing …

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