Dr. Ferguson is a healthcare executive, cardiologist, and preventive medicine specialist with major interests in telehealth and telecommunications and computer applications to healthcare. He provides telemedicine consults to remote areas of the high desert of California. He is Medical Director, National Rural Accountable Care Organization and Ridgecrest Regional Hospital; Executive Director, Southern Sierra Telehealth Network. He has served on numerous Boards, including California Broadband Cooperative, California Telehealth Network, California Health Information Partnership & Services Organization, and California State Rural Health Association. He’s the author of American Healthcare Reform: Fixing the Real Problems, published in 2014.
American healthcare reform is desperately needed. We’ve had massive changes in healthcare since the 1990s. Hospital admissions have decreased (average daily census decreased 31% from 1980 to 2010, while the US population increase 36%). Recent recent massive staff layoffs in leading medical centers and healthcare systems. Closure of many hospitals, especially rural hospitals. Hospital Outpatient revenues […]