Hospital-Level Implementation Barriers, Facilitators, and Willingness to Use a New Regional Disaster Teleconsultation System: Cross-Sectional Survey Study.
Tehnaz P BoyleKrislyn M BoggsJingya GaoMaureen McMahonRachel BedenbaughLauren SchmidtKorilyn Sauser ZachrisonEric GoralnickPaul D BiddingerCarlos Arturo CamargoPublished in: JMIR public health and surveillance (2023)
Most New England hospitals and EDs have access to state emergency notification systems, telecommunication infrastructure, and willingness to use a new regional disaster teleconsultation system. System developers should focus on ways to improve telecommunication redundancy in rural areas and use low-bandwidth technology to maintain service availability to CAHs and rural hospitals and EDs. Policies and procedures to accelerate and standardize disaster credentialing are needed for implementation across jurisdictions.