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Colleen Hearn: Telestroke Helps Resource-Limited Facilities Gain Access to Unavailable Expertise

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Apr 6, 2026, 16:37

Colleen Hearn: Telestroke Helps Resource-Limited Facilities Gain Access to Unavailable Expertise

Colleen Hearn, Founder of Integrated Virtual Care Advisors LLC, shared on LinkedIn:

”Time is Brain.

During a stroke, nearly 2 million neurons are lost every minute.

Timeliness isn’t just a metric.

It is the difference between recovery, lifelong disability, or worse.

This is why the integration of telestroke and teleradiology is so critical.

Stroke care depends on two things happening at the same time: rapid neurological evaluation and immediate imaging interpretation.

When vascular neurologists and radiologists can work in parallel through virtual care platforms, hospitals, especially rural and resource-limited facilities gain access to expertise that would otherwise be unavailable.

But technology alone doesn’t solve the problem.

Building high-performing virtual specialty programs requires leaders who understand both the clinical workflow and the operational infrastructure needed to scale telehealth across large health systems.

Experience in telestroke, teleradiology, and national telehealth operations brings a unique perspective to designing these systems.

Because in stroke care, minutes matter.

And the systems we build must move just as fast.”

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