Physicians' Online and Statcomm Medical Launch State-of-the-Art Communication Services to the Medical Industry Partnership Designed to Improve Patient Care.TARRYTOWN, N.Y.--(BW HealthWire)--Aug. 23, 1999-- Physicians' Online (POL), the largest, exclusive physician-only Internet community, and Statcomm Medical Communications, Inc., an innovator in the medical answering industry, today announced plans to launch a fully interactive, multi-media Call Center to address the communication needs of the medical community in the greater New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of area. The new Interactive Call Center is the first to focus exclusively on the physician community, and recognizes the unique requirements of this population. Combining a sophisticated fiber-optic network with the latest software and hardware products, the call center will provide faster, more reliable telecommunication connections to the medical industry. Guaranteed page reception and e-mail message delivery will allow physicians' greater flexibility in retrieving messages. Combined cellular and paging units will reduce the amount of hardware needed by a busy physician. The "Perfect Answer" software feature guarantees the proper greeting to every patient, doctor, nurse or hospital employee. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Physicians' Online's president Jean-Louis Ecochard, "This comprehensive medical communication service bundles our physician portal with advanced telephone answering services answering service n. A business service that answers its clients' telephone calls and conveys messages to the clients. , bringing to market the first end-to-end communication solution for the medical industry. We are thrilled to offer this high-end technology to our greater NY area members in order to meet the needs of the full continuum of healthcare communications. We are confident that the convenience of these communication devices will benefit both physicians and patients." "We are dedicated to providing a more efficient way for patients and doctors to communicate," says Steve Showalter, president of Statcomm Medical. "We have chosen POL as a partner for their unparalleled network infra-structure, and for their expertise in communication services to the physician market." With over 67,000 practicing physicians in the greater New York area, offering this service to this physician community can potentially affect the care of over 13 million patients. Piloted only two weeks ago, the service is already being used by many POL physician members in the NY area. About Physicians' Online Physicians' Online, Inc., is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. based in Tarrytown, NY. The Company operates the leading medical information and communication network for physicians, the Physicians' Online Network (POL). Launched in February 1994, POL has rapidly gained the membership of more than one-quarter of the U.S. practicing physicians. POL provides a secure, physicians-only environment featuring access to MEDLINE The online medical database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) whose parent is the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. MEDLINE contains millions of articles from thousands of medical journals and publications. The consumer section of the site (http://medlineplus. (R) and other medical databases, clinical symposia sym·po·si·a n. A plural of symposium. with peers and national experts, CME CME See: Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME See Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). credits, daily medical news, recruiting services, private e-mail accounts and Internet access See how to access the Internet. , among many other services. Through its award-winning service, POL connects its members--the largest online community of authenticated au·then·ti·cate tr.v. au·then·ti·cat·ed, au·then·ti·cat·ing, au·then·ti·cates To establish the authenticity of; prove genuine: a specialist who authenticated the antique samovar. physicians--with colleagues, professional associations, pharmaceutical manufacturers, luxury goods resources, and others. Additional information about POL can be found at http://www.pol.net. About Statcomm Medical Statcomm Medical Communications Inc., is a privately held company based in Tarrytown, NY. The company was established in August of 1998 with the goal of unifying the services provided to medical practices. The Statcomm Medical line includes, 24 hour live operator medical call center, medical billing, medical transcription
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