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Winners include the Online Telemedicine Research Institute, VISN 8
Community Care Coordination Service, March Networks, and E-Health
Solutions.
The Telehealth Awards were created by
the Association of Telehealth Service Providers (ATSP) to recognize and
honor those organizations that are actively working to promote excellence
in the telehealth industry. Awards were given in two categories:
Healthcare Providers and Vendor Organizations.
Telehealth Award winners in the
Health Care Provider category are:
Online Telemedicine Research
Institute
The Online Telemedicine Research
Institute, of India, is striving to improve equity of access to health
care services while reducing costs by utilizing telemedicine technologies
in India and South Asia.
Telemedicine was used as a vital tool
for re-engineering healthcare effectively during the recent Gujarat
earthquake, which measured 8.1 on the Richter scale. Some 40,000 people
died, including many health care workers. Many hospitals and other medical
facilities were destroyed. Operating out of tents, the Online Telemedicine
Research Institute was able to provide telehealthcare to thousands of
people in the month that followed. More
information can be found at www.onlinetelemedicine.com.
VISN 8 Community Care Coordination
Service (runner-up)
VISN 8 of Lake City, Florida, USA,
created the Community Care Coordination Service (CCCS) to meet the
challenges of providing services to chronically ill veterans in Florida
and Puerto Rico.
The health care professional providing
care coordination for the veteran is the key to the success of this
program. In the CCCS program, five different technologies were
implemented, including Health Hero’s Health Buddy.
Currently there are over 600 VA Health
Buddy participants—all showing a reduction in usage of services, as well
as self-reported improvements in quality of life.
Rita Kobb accepted the award for VISN 8 Community Care Coordination
Service.
Telehealth Award winners in the Vendor Organization category are:
March Networks
March Networks solves to achieve the
industry wide home telehealth objectives of improving access, cost,
quality and efficiency of care by:
1)
Offering a bundled service that is fully supported, end-to-end,
removing technological deployment barriers
2)
Offering delivery over any broadband network
3)
Moving beyond simple vital sign monitoring capabilities, it is
evolving to support a broad range of health and social needs, such as care
on demand, medication compliance, teaching and training, remote
collaboration and disease management.
March Networks, of Ottawa, Canada, and their partners recently completed
the largest home telehealth trial in Canada. The pilot found that 95.5%
of patients who received remote video conferencing homecare visits were
satisfied with the home telehealth experience. More information can
be found at www.marchnetworks.com.
E-Health Solutions (runner-up)
E-Health Solutions, of Houston, Texas, USA is a telehealth project
mentoring, implementation, and support company.
E-Health Solutions acquired the funding, did the design and project
managed the implementation for the Texas Health Alert Network. It also
provided a sophisticated Alert Application software package to run over
the network. EHS then trained and assisted 63 local health departments in
using the new application. Robert Brecht accepted the award for E-Health
Solutions. More information about E-Health Solutions can be found at www.ehealthsolutionsinc.com.
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