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August  2011
Issue No. 7
In This Issue
Recent AMD News
Telemedicine Industry News
AMD's Store Now Open
Upcoming Telemedicine Events and Conferences
Customer Spotlight
AMD President Elected to ATA Board of Fellows
AMD at ATA Fall Forum 2011
ATA 2011 President's Award

AMD in the News 

August 2011
 
Polycom on AsiaPac tour with new offerings around telemedicine including AMD medical devices.
 
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August 1, 2011 
 
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 June 17, 2011
 
 Telemedicine from Mayo Clinic
Watch this video to see how AMD's devices and telemedicine solutions are part of Mayo Clinic's telemedicine offerings. 
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June 11, 2011 
AMD Devices and Cisco HealthPresence with Mexico President
President Calderon of Mexico Visits Cisco Headquarters in California
AMD's devices are shown with Cisco's HealthPresence Solution. 
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May 26, 2011
AMD's 2500 General Exam Camera is featured as part of Kaiser Permanente's Ontario hospital.
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April 7, 2011
President, Steve Normandin, is featured with AMD's Dispatch Case and telemedicine devices at Med-e-Tel 2011 in Luxembourg.
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 March 30, 2011
AMD's President, Steve Normandin, invited to speak at the 1st Retirement & Healthcare Summit.
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Telemedicine Industry News

ATA: Telemedicine is proven already 

August 11, 2011

Telemedicine is no longer "turning the corner," American Telemedicine Association (ATA) CEO Jon Linkous wrote in a recent blog post.

  

"For years we talked about reaching the point when telemedicine services became self-sustaining outside of temporary grants, going from promise to reality," wrote Linkous. "We have long passed the point of telemedicine being a new application. After eighteen years the corner is turned and I promise to put that phrase away." Linkous added that he is tired of having to "prove the case," and that a variety of telemedicine is now reimbursed by Medicare...more

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UnitedHealth report points to telehealth to ease rural healthcare crisis

UnitedHealth 

July 27, 2011

 

Rural Americans experience more chronic health conditions such as diabetes and heart disease than urban and suburban residents, have greater difficulties accessing high-quality care, and from 2014 millions more of them will likely participate in Medicaid and government-subsidized insurance, according to a new paper released today by the UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform & Modernization.  

At the same time, more use of technology, such as broadband access that would increase telehealth solutions, can help ease strain on the system and further promote healthier outcomes in rural communities.

The paper, titled "Modernizing Rural Health Care: Coverage, Quality and Innovation," explores how health reform implementation, particularly health insurance expansion, will increase the need for innovative care models and points to technology and a stronger role for rural primary care as promising solutions. It also reports the results of a new Harris Interactive survey of 2,000 patients and more than 1,000 primary physicians in rural and urban areas. 

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AFHCAN telemedicine program reaches significant milestone in Alaska 

 
AFHCAN has improved health care for Alaska Natives and Alaskans around the state and helps make patient care more efficient by cutting down on wait times to see specialists. It's also saved Alaskans and the Tribal Health System more than $6 million annually in travel expenses and strengthened ANTHC through telehealth services reimbursements.

The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium's (ANTHC) AFHCAN Telehealth Solutions telemedicine program recently hit a major landmark, recording its 100,000th telehealth case within the Alaska Tribal Health System.

AFHCAN technology allows health care professionals located at the Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC) in Anchorage to see and treat patients in Alaska's rural communities. AFHCAN began documenting cases in 2001.

  

AMD's Store is Now Open 
AMD Store
Looking for an easy way to reorder your consumable AMD products?

The AMD Store is now open and carries consumable and disposable products used with some of our most popular products.

Now reordering everything from disposable tip covers for your AMD-2500 to additional headsets for your AMD-3700 is all just a mouse click away!

See and Hear AMD at these Upcoming Telemedicine Events and Conference

September 14-15, 2011
Cape Town, South Africa
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September 19-21, 2011
Anchorage, Alaska
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October 14-16, 2011
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Telemedicon '11
November 11-13, 2011
Mumbai, India 
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Success and Failures in Telehealth, 2nd Annual Meeting of the Australian Telehealth Society
December 1-2, 2011
Brisbane
  
Greetings!

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AMD Customer Spotlight

Paul Chester Children's Hope Foundation

Paul Chester Children's Hope Foundation Telemedicine 

Innovative Telemedicine in Action

Paul Chester Children's Hope Foundation

The AMD Dispatch Case and MacroView Otoscope are used during PCCHF's mission in Kenya.  (Photo Credit: PCCHF.org)

About Paul Chester Children's Hope Foundation

 

The Paul Chester Children's Hope Foundation (PCCHF) is a registered 501c3 charity that provides medical assistance to children and families in developing countries, giving them a chance to live productive lives through well-conceived medical interventions.

 

PCCHF provides vital assistance to improve the lives and well being of families in developing countries. Its medical outreach programs bring critical health resources and treatments to remote communities, harnessing the expertise of our volunteer medical professionals.

  

The foundation honors the legacy of Paul Chester (1987-2003), a bright young man deeply committed to helping young people. To find out more, log on to  www.pcchf.org.  

PCCHF Kenya Telemedicine Visit
Dr. Chester used AMD's General Exam Camera to exam a child in Kenya. (Photo Credit:  PCCHF.org)

Mission to Kenya

 

For its January 2011 mission to Kenya, PCCHF partnered with Guardian 24/7 to provide telemedicine technology to the most vulnerable patients in rural Kenya.

 

"One of our partners for this mission was Guardian 24/7.  They provided us with telemedicine capability in the field, which is an incredible component of this mission.  The use of telemedicine is certainly  bringing something new and something that has never been done before into these village of Kenya," stated Dr. Chester.

 

This was the first mission that visited multiple sites.  At the Nairobi, Narok, Laikipia and Malindi locations, PCCHF's volunteers, with the help of AMD's Dispatch Case and telemedicine peripherals,  were able to consult with Guardian 24/7physicians located in the United States.  

 

AMD's Dispatch Case, a light-weight; ruggedized; portable device, contains several telemedicine peripherals and its portability made it a perfect fit for these remote locations in Kenya.

AMD's Dispatch Case - Telemedicine in Kenya

AMD's Dispatch Case and General Exam Camera seen being used in a surgery room. (Photo Credit: PCCHF.org)

 

"With the help of AMD's devices, PCCHF's team could literally set up a pop-up clinic at each site and in minutes, connect with Guardian 24/7's team of physicians in the U.S. and all of the doctors involved will share the same information and vital signs to treat patients," said Jonathan Frye, CEO of Guardian 24/7.

 

"Their little box (AMD's Dispatch Case) has turned out to be a very powerful tool for our mission," explained Chester.  "We could have telemedicine conferences with doctors in the U.S. in the middle of Narok or from the coast of Malindi. These telemedicine consults make it so that it is just like we would be seeing a patient in the U.S."

 

While in Kenya, PCCHF's team of 20 medical volunteers completed over 1,000 medical cases and 60 surgeries. 

 

To learn more about Paul Chester Children's Hope Foundation, please visit www.pcchf.org.  

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AMD Global Telemedicine Announces Steven Normandin, President, Elected to American Telemedicine Association College of Fellows

This year's inductees include:
  • Anne Birdick, MD, MPH Associate Dean for TeleHealth and Clinical Outreach
    University of Miami TeleHealth 
  • Sam Burgiss, PhD
    Professor, Department of Radiology
    University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine
  • William England, PhD, JD
    Vice-President, Rural Health Care Division
    Universal Service Administration Company
  • Ronald Merrell, MD, FACS
    Emeritus Professor of Surgery
    Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Steven R. Normandin
    President
    AMD Global Telemedicine, Inc .
  • Mark VanderWerf
    Director of eHealth
    Nonin Medical
  • Pamela Whitten, PhD
    Dean, College of Communications, Arts & Sciences
    Michigan State University

AMD Global Telemedicine Inc, the worldwide leading supplier of telemedicine technology, devices, and application software for both dynamic encounters (live telemedicine) and store and forward consultations, today announced that Steven Normandin, AMD's President, has been elected to the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) College of Fellows.

Election to the College is a high honor that recognizes significant achievements in telemedicine, service to the general telemedicine community and service to the ATA.  The ATA made the announcement at their 16th Annual Meeting and Exposition in Tampa, Florida.

"It is an honor and a privilege to be elected by my peers to the ATA College of Fellows," stated Normandin.  "The American Telemedicine Association is the leading organization in the field of telemedicine and I am excited to be able to continue to work with them to use telemedicine to improve the quality of care available to all worldwide."

AMD at ATA Fall Forum 2011

ATA Fall Forum 2011 

AMD Global Telemedicine will be exhibiting at the upcoming American Telemedicine Association's Fall Forum.  This year's Fall Forum is being held in Anchorage, AK on September 19-21, 2011

 

Come visit AMD in booth number 305 and enter for a chance to win an Amazon Kindle!
 

 

We look forward to seeing you there.

 

Click here to learn more about the ATA Fall Forum.

ATA 2011 President's Award:  Institutional

ATA 2011

Dr. Curtis Lowery (right) of UAMS accepts the award from Steve Normandin of AMD Global Telemedicine.
 Congratulations to the Univeristry of Arkansas for Medical Science, the 2011 recpient of the ATA President's Award for an Insitution. 
About AMD Global Telemedicine
AMD is a Telemedicine Encounter Management company (TEMS™) and the worldwide leading supplier of telemedicine technology, devices, and application software for both dynamic encounters (live telemedicine) and deferred consultations.

AMD Global Telemedicine, Inc. offers the market's preeminent diagnostic medical devices and tConsult™ Encounter Management Software that is equipped with device management, case creation, work flow and archival.
  
AMD has over 6,500 installations in 81 countries and delivers solution design, turnkey installation, and training for telemedicine programs across the globe.

To learn more about AMD, please visit www.amdtelemedicine.com.