ViTel Net Awarded Costa Rica Telemedicine Network Project.Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers MCLEAN, Va--(BW HealthWire)--July 11, 2000 ViTel Net(TM) (Visual Telecommunications Network A telecommunications network is a of telecommunications links and nodes arranged so that messages may be passed from one part of the network to another over multiple links and through various nodes. , Inc.) has been awarded a major contract from the Social Security Administration of Costa Rica Costa Rica (kŏs`tə rē`kə), officially Republic of Costa Rica, republic (2005 est. pop. 4,016,000), 19,575 sq mi (50,700 sq km), Central America. (CCSS CCSS Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social (Costa Rican Social Security Institution) CCSS Center for Civil Society Studies CCSS Commodity Command Standard System CCSS Common Channel Signaling System ) to provide telemedicine ("long distance" medicine) Using a videoconferencing link to a large medical center in order that rural health care facilities can perform diagnosis and treatment. A specialist can monitor the patient remotely taking cues from the general practitioner or nurse who is actually examining solutions to complete its initial phase of the Costa Rica Telemedicine Network Project. The initial phase consists of 29 selected installation sites throughout Costa Rica. These installations include clinics in rural areas and selected member hospitals of the National Public Health System. Telemedicine is the practice of medicine over distance with the use of telecommunications equipment. Early telemedicine solutions were a simple telephone call from one physician to another requesting advice or consultation. Today, telemedicine bring patients, physicians and specialist located hundreds of miles from each other into one setting for actual examinations, evaluations and consultations via store-and-forward and/or live video interaction. The Telemedicine Network currently consists of nine sites with an additional 20 sites to be connected over the next nine months. By year 2005, 223 Health Centers or Patient Clinics, 21 Rural and Regional Hospitals and nine National Hospitals are to be connected to the network. "We are providing greater accessibility to health care services and resources in rural communities as a result of this program," said Jamie Cortes, M.D., and General Surgeon General surgeon A physician who has special training and expertise in performing a variety of operations. Mentioned in: Appendectomy at Hospital Nacional de Nino, San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. . "I believe the Costa Rica Telemedicine Network will be the model replicated throughout Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. ." The Telemedicine Network utilizes the MedVizer(TM) software developed by ViTel Net. MedVizer is a standard multi-media medical record information manager that displays healthcare information in an image and video-enhanced environment, utilizing standard file formats. In addition it uses a unique volume management network that manages each patient folder In a graphical user interface (GUI), a simulated file folder that holds data, applications and other folders. Folders were introduced on the Xerox Star, then popularized on the Macintosh and later adapted to Windows and Unix. In Unix and Linux, as well as DOS and Windows 3. and its associated stored objects. It employs a multi-media open architecture database with a customizable patient record, while including index keys for rapid querying of patient databases. The MedVizer(TM) software operates in store and forward and/or real-time modes to distribute the patient information utilizing the Internet or any other conventional telecommunication system. With the addition of the twenty sites ViTel Net's role will expand to and encompass training, support, maintaining the existing sites and integrating the new sites. "Everyone at ViTel Net is very proud of this news," said Allen Izadpanah, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of ViTel Net. "Being a part of team that is providing accessible health care services to rural communities throughout an entire nation is a very exciting event. It demonstrates the versatility of our company, we are providing not only the telemedicine software solution but the implementation of a very large telemedicine network that utilizes our electronic patient information system in Spanish." ViTel Net(TM) is a telemedicine/e-health systems developer and integrator (1) In electronics, a device that combines an input with a variable, such as time, and provides an analog output; for example, a watt-hour meter. (2) See systems integrator. . State-of-the-art multimedia information management integration is the cornerstone of all of its telemedicine/telehealth and e-health solutions. And the company has a history: It has been providing much needed enterprise-wide, integrated medical records and telemedicine/telehealth solutions since 1989. Information about ViTel Net is available at: www.vitelnet.com |
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