ViTel Net Awarded Tele-Echocardiography Network Contract From St. Christopher's.Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers MCLEAN, Va.--(BW HealthWire)--May 31, 2001 ViTel Net(TM) , a leading telemedicine product development company, is pleased TO announce its recent award to provide St. Christopher's Hospital for Children St. Christopher's Hospital for Children is a non-sectarian 161 bed children's hospital located in Philadelphia. It's Physicians serve as the pediatrics department at the Drexel University College of Medicine. St. in Philadelphia and its remote satellite centers with a customized tele-cardiography solution. ViTel Net's Medvizer(TM) Tele-Echocardiography solution will provide St. Christopher's with the capabilities for transferring, capturing and displaying diagnostic-quality echocardiographs. Using the Medvizer Tele-Echocardiology Workstation St. Christopher's will capture echocardiograms from both remote and internal echo facilities. ViTel Net's Medvizer Archiving system will enable the captured echocardiogram ech·o·car·di·o·gram n. A visual record produced by echocardiography. Echocardiogram A non-invasive ultrasound test that shows an image of the inside of the heart. and patient information folder to be archived onto a 1.2 TB DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. Juke Box for storage. ViTel Net's Medvizer Tele-Echocardiography solution includes a report generator Same as report writer. that automatically generates a final report, including the consulting physician's interpretation with comparative age-specific normal values normal values pl.n. A set of laboratory test values used to characterize apparently healthy individuals, now replaced by reference values. . The consulting cardiologist can attach a password protected electronic signature, and then send the report electronically or in hardcopy format to the referring physician. The completed report is also stored in the patient's folder along with the echocardiogram. The Medvizer Tele-Echocardiography solution will support St. Christopher's internal echocardiography Echocardiography Definition Echocardiography is a diagnostic test that uses ultrasound waves to create an image of the heart muscle. Ultrasound waves that rebound or echo off the heart can show the size, shape, and movement of the heart's valves and operations, as well as enable cardiologists to remotely diagnose or exclude heart disease in infants and children located at satellite and referring sites. According to Allen Izadapanah, ViTel Net's 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. : "We are please to assist St. Christopher in delivering the highest quality of care to children by providing them with a tele-echocardiography solution that is customized to meet the requirements of the newly networked operation." ViTel Net demonstrated the effectiveness of its Medvize(TM) Tele-Echocardiography solution for pediatrics at Children's National Medical Center  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . in Washington, DC, where it has been actively used over the past 3 years. ViTel Net(TM), the acronym for Visual Telecommunications Network, Inc., is a leading telemedicine/telehealth, with a broad product line for enterprise-wide use. For more information about ViTel Net and its customizable products, contact: Robert Monko Marketing Communications 703/448-0999 monko@vitelnet.com |
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