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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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Board of Governors Telehealth & Informatics Workgroup

The Telehealth & Informatics Workgroup's purpose is to ensure effective use of telehealth for practicing surgeons. Project deliverables include best practices documentation for surgical clinical telehealth practices; identifying both state and national advocacy efforts and policy targets that will be necessary to promote infrastructure, uptake, and reimbursement for telehealth services in the U.S.; developing templates for global surgical care that incorporate telemedicine, telementoring, and remote, virtual education to enhance surgical care internationally; drafting questions on telehealth topics for the annual Governors survey; disseminating educational programs on telehealth to the membership through Clinical Congress agenda proposals, policy development and white papers; integrating telehealth into surgical practice; and cataloging innovations in health care delivery technologies to optimize surgical practice.

Questions regarding the Workgroup can be directed to Emily Kalata, Manager, Board of Governors, at ekalata@facs.org or 312.202.5360.