Our Virtual Care Model
Learn how Horizon Virtual Care embeds specialized clinical protocols into your local facility without the disruption of traditional transfers.
A Direct Clinical Extension, Not a Referral System
Historically, when a patient at a community or rural hospital required specialized kidney care, the standard protocol was a physical referral or an emergency transfer to a major metropolitan medical center. This process is highly disruptive for the patient, stressful for their family, and costly for the sending facility.
Horizon Virtual Care offers a different path. Rather than transferring the patient, we bring the specialist directly to the bedside. By combining secure, high-definition tele-presence technology with structured clinical protocols, we embed board-certified nephrologists directly into your existing on-site care team.
Our specialists don't work in isolation. They collaborate closely with your local attending physicians and nurses, review charts in your shared EHR, and co-manage patients from admission to discharge. The result is a seamless care experience that keeps patients in their home communities while elevating clinical outcomes.
The Virtual Consult Workflow
From the initial identification of a clinical need to daily virtual rounds and post-discharge coordination.
Identify Patient Need
A local nurse or attending physician identifies a patient with acute or chronic nephrology needs, such as unexplained renal decline, severe hypertension, or complex dialysis requirements.
Submit Secure Request
The onsite clinical team submits a consult request via Horizon's secure portal, uploading recent lab results and diagnostic data directly into the dashboard.
Specialist Connection
For urgent acute cases (like severe AKI), a board-certified nephrologist connects via secure, low-latency HD video within 2 hours. Scheduled visits are configured at the facility's convenience.
Bedside Collaboration
The specialist conducts a face-to-face virtual assessment. On-site nurses act as clinical extenders, adjusting cart cameras and using digital stethoscopes while our physician documents findings in the shared EHR.
Continuous Follow-up
We coordinate discharge plans, follow-up virtual clinic sessions, and direct communication with local primary care doctors to prevent readmissions and keep care consistent.
Why it Matters for Rural & Community Hospitals
Keeping care and revenue local while delivering advanced clinical oversight.
Eliminating Access Gaps
Rural and critical access hospitals face major challenges recruiting on-site specialists. Our virtual model embeds board-certified nephrologists on-demand, instantly upgrading your facility's clinical capabilities.
Relieving Patient Travel Burdens
For patients with kidney disease, travelling hours for a single specialist consultation is exhausting and financially draining. We bring the expert to them, allowing families to support patients locally.
Keeping Care & Revenue Local
When community hospitals are forced to transfer patients due to lack of specialty coverage, they lose inpatient census and related diagnostic revenue. Horizon enables you to retain patients, labs, and imaging.
State-of-the-Art Security and EHR Compatibility
We understand that introducing new clinical technologies can raise operations and security concerns. Horizon telehealth platforms are built using bank-grade end-to-end encryption and comply fully with HIPAA and HITECH guidelines.
Our systems are designed to operate within your existing technical workflows. Rather than siloing consult notes in an external database, our nephrologists document directly into your local EHR. This ensures that clinical summaries, medication changes, and lab orders remain in the patient's primary record, keeping your care teams aligned and audit-ready.
Clinical Telehealth Cart Specifications
Our clinical endpoints are engineered to act as a seamless extension of the nephrologist, providing high-fidelity diagnostics at the patient's bedside.
High-Definition PTZ Camera
Remote pan-tilt-zoom controls enable our nephrologists to visually inspect patient symptoms, dialysis access sites, and skin condition in clear detail.
Integrated Digital Stethoscope
Transmits real-time, high-fidelity cardiac and pulmonary sounds, allowing the remote physician to perform detailed auscultations.
Dual Medical-Grade Screens
Displays the direct video consultation feed on one screen while rendering active EHR records or lab values on the secondary screen for the nurse.
All-Day Hot-Swappable Battery
High-capacity internal battery pack runs the cart for up to 8 hours, ensuring uninterrupted virtual rounding across multiple hospital wards.
Antimicrobial Sterilizable Enclosure
Finished with a medical-grade antimicrobial coating, enabling sanitization wipes and maintaining infection control standards.
Secure Wireless WebRTC
Dual-band Wi-Fi connection protocols stream secure, low-latency, end-to-end encrypted video feeds without overloading local network bandwidth.
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