New Telemedicine Apps Revealed

HDM Breaking News, February 26, 2008

REACH Call, an Augusta, Ga.-based telemedicine company whose first product was designed for emergency stroke care, will soon introduce a series of new applications, says Sandeep Agate, president and CEO.

The next application, available in the first quarter of this year, will support general telemedicine programs. In future months, the company plans to release specific telemedicine applications for emergency neurology consults, stroke care followup, cardiology for heart attacks, acute psychiatry, and burn/trauma.

In 2006, the company commercialized a product developed at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta. REACH Call delivers its services using the application service provider computing model over the Internet.

So far, 50 hospitals in five states are using the initial application for emergency stroke care that enables smaller hospital emergency departments to link to neurologists at other locations to quickly determine a course of treatment. The smaller hospitals use mobile carts from Flo Healthcare, Atlanta, equipped with laptop computers from Dell Computer Corp., Round Rock, Texas, and a camera that the remote neurologist can maneuver.

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