Administrator
Medical University of South Carolina Center
Emily H. Warr, MSN, RN, is the Administrator for the Medical University of South Carolina Center for Telehealth, a HRSA designated Center of Excellence. Emily began her career at MUSC as a critical care nurse in 2002 and has extensive experience in pediatric and adult ICUs, including managing MUSC’s Extracorporeal Life Support Center.
When she joined the MUSC Center for Telehealth as one of the foundational team members, she built an innovative, outreach Tele-ICU program to extend expert intensive care to community hospitals across the state. This Tele-ICU consortium has grown statewide under her leadership to hospitals of varying size and rurality. Emily also managed a novel, synergistic critical care quality improvement and consulting program called ICU Innovations. For eight years she has served as the ICU nursing expert for curriculum development, quality improvement, and change management collaboration with partner sites.
In 2018, Emily assumed the Director of Operations role in the Center for Telehealth. In addition to comprehensive oversight of clinical operations, she created and implemented five telehealth quality domains and associated metrics for evaluation of service quality. She also designed a novel process improvement model distinct to telemedicine which addresses the complexity of virtual encounters and organizes improvement efforts around the challenges unique to this care modality. During her time as Director of Operations, she directed continuous quality assessment and improvement efforts across the spectrum of telehealth clinical services offered at MUSC.
In 2020, Emily became the Administrator for the MUSC Center for Telehealth. In this role, she oversees the strategic growth and direction of South Carolina’s telehealth initiatives, as well as the quality of service delivery for MUSC and statewide telehealth activities ranging from acute hospital support to direct to consumer modalities. She is highly engaged in initiatives to advance digital patient engagement and virtual care in South Carolina and beyond as an emerging leader in this space.