Hoag Hospital Foundation – The Future of Health Care – InTouch Health Technologies

I received an email today from the foundation about their upcoming event and thought this was worth passing along for others to view as well.  This is an annual event that also helps fund and support nursing education at the hospital.  You can’t help but notice the picture of the robot on the  brochure, right?  [...]

Specialists On Call Launches Emergency Pediatric Telemedicine Service in California

Specialists On Call, Inc. (SOC) announced today that it is launching an emergency pediatric telemedicine service to address California’s growing specialty physician shortage. SOC is the country’s largest private provider of emergency telemedicine on-call services to hospitals, having already managed more than 6,000 emergency neurology consultations nationwide.

Specialists On Call Earns the Hospital Association of Southern California’s Endorsement

Specialists On Call announced today that they have partnered with the Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC) to increase awareness of SOC’s services to member hospitals.

Specialists On Call Expands Senior Management & Sales Teams

Specialists On Call, Inc. (SOC) a leading private telemedicine company providing access to specialty physicians via telemedical link, has completed the expansion of its senior management and sales teams.

Helping Rural Communities

Open Range Communications headquartered near Denver has just finalized a $267 million loan agreement with the USDA Rural Development Loan Program to provide broadband service to 518 rural communities in 17 states. In addition to the Rural Development loan, Open Range has secured $100 million in financing from One Equity Partners, the private equity arm of JP Morgan Chase & Co.

Specialists On Call Expands Access to Emergency Neurology On-Call Services in California

Specialists On Call, Inc. (SOC) announced today that it is expanding the states in which it provides service, including California. SOC is the country’s largest provider of emergency neurology on-call services to hospitals, having already managed more than 5,500 emergency neurology consultations to date.

Center to Coordinate Telehealth

Millions of dollars in new federal and state funds are going to be used to support the expansion of California’s telehealth infrastructure.

Calit2*Life: Stroke Telemedicine Technology Proves Successful

By Doug Ramsey

One of Calit2’s first joint projects with the UCSD School of Medicine, in 2003, involved creation of a broadband video telemedicine system, STRokE DOC. It allowed a stroke specialist from UCSD, using a laptop and broadband connection, to evaluate possible stroke victims brought into one of several community ERs in remote areas of [...]

Telemedicine leads to better stroke treatment decisions

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center say that their first-of-its-kind study of a telemedicine program which transports stroke specialists via computer desktop or even laptop to the patient’s bedside, using highly sophisticated video, audio and Internet technology, could have an immediate and profound impact on the treatment of stroke patients throughout the world.

UCSD Stroke Center Receives Major Grant To Use New Technologies To Enhance Brain-Saving Diagnosis & Treatment

Pioneering new techniques that could potentially extend brain-saving stroke treatment to more patients will begin at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Stroke Center with a $5 million, 5-year grant from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS).