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Answer Health on Demand Partners with GVSU
March 02, 2017
Answer Health on Demand, a Grand Rapids-based telemedicine platform, has recently begun partnering with Grand Valley State University to train students about the technology of telemedicine and how to use it for patient care. Telemedicine platforms allow patients to connect virtually with physicians for primary and urgent care or for specialist consultations. Answer Health on Demand is provided by Emergency Care Specialists in Grand Rapids, a medical group of emergency physicians, and Answer Health, an umbrella organization formed last year for independent doctors in the region.
The partnership with the GVSU College of Health Professions began in January. The training provided is designed to teach students studying to become a physician assistant how to engage properly with patients through a telemedicine platform. Two physician assistant students take part in the training each week and spend two to four hours job-shadowing Answer Health doctors, and then later spend time with doctors conducting telemedicine visits with patients. The job-shadowing with Answer Health doctors is part of a course in the undergraduate physician assistant program at Grand Valley that places students in clinical settings.
Read more about this new partnership.