SANTA BARBARA, Calif.,
Nov. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/
-- Today, InTouch Health, a leader in enterprise telehealth,
and GE Healthcare's Global Education Services division, announced
commencement of Virtual Onsite Training, a remote presence training
commercialization effort after successful completion of a two-year
pilot. The initiative begins with establishing a total of 50
InTouch Health Techâ„¢ remote presence devices in rotation at more
than 200 global locations to support the technical and product
training of clinicians, physicians, and technicians using a variety
of GE Healthcare products.
During the pilot, the InTouch Health telehealth network
and remote presence devices were used to connect GE experts
remotely to healthcare providers across GE's installed base around
the world. More than 200 telepresence training classes occurred,
involving more than 300 medical professionals, in both the proper
use of GE equipment and best practices. The pilot program
demonstrated that adding this remote presence training resulted in
higher effectiveness than traditional training alone, and offered
greater convenience to the customer through the flexibility of
on-demand telepresence. The Virtual Onsite Training device
replicates face-to-face training through an attached
video monitor and robotics for two-way communication and
interaction.
Mario Lois, General
Manager, GE Healthcare Global Education Services commented, "GE
Healthcare provides technology to providers and patients around the
world. The users who operate those devices are as impactful, if not
more so, on the actual efficiency and patient outcomes as the
product itself. Therefore, GE has made it a global priority to
re-imagine its training and education solutions to help users
achieve and maintain optimal skills and product usage. Our
collaboration with InTouch Health enables network connectivity,
hands on interaction, and an intuitive user experience for their
online mobile remote presence training which will be foundational
to reaching this goal."
The InTouch Health telehealth network is a single
unified cloud infrastructure that includes data centers around the
globe, covering the Americas, Asia, Africa,
Europe and the Middle East.
The network provides a regulatory (HIPAA) compliant, secure,
scalable, and always available network hosting FDA Class II and
Class I medical devices. The network architecture allows for
the delivery of business intelligence and data analytics gathered
from all data traffic managed on any connected device.
This is the same network used by GE to deliver their customer
on-demand Virtual Onsite
Training.
Joseph DeVivo, President
and CEO of InTouch Health said, "Our work with GE Healthcare is a
natural extension of the clinical solutions we provide each day to
thousands of practitioners, delivering seamless clinical efficiency
no matter the clinical setting, location or treatment
modality. The right care, at the right time, anywhere, is
easily migrated to the vision of GE Healthcare of ensuring that the
person using a device has the best training and support possible,
whenever and wherever it's needed. We are very excited to
work with GE Healthcare in the area of data analytics to help
measure and optimize the effectiveness of what so far has been a
very successful program."
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical
technologies and services to meet the demand for increased access,
enhanced quality and more affordable healthcare around the world.
GE (NYSE: GE) works on things that matter - great people and
technologies taking on tough challenges. From medical imaging,
software & IT, patient monitoring and diagnostics to drug
discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies and
performance improvement solutions, GE Healthcare helps medical
professionals deliver great healthcare to their patients. For more
information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at
www.gehealthcare.com.
About InTouch Health
InTouch Health provides its FDA-cleared InTouch Telehealth
Network and Managed Services to hospitals and healthcare systems
for the delivery of specialty care, anytime, anywhere. InTouch
Health has helped more than 130 healthcare systems deploy
telehealth programs across their enterprise quickly and seamlessly
using its industry-leading combination of people, processes, and
technology. InTouch Health has surpassed 800,000 potentially
life-saving telehealth sessions over the InTouch Telehealth Cloud
and now manages more than 200,000 clinical connections annually for
over 1,500 hospital locations globally. For more information,
please visit
www.intouchhealth.com.
Media Contact:
Stephen Pedroff
(805) 866-1962
spedroff@intouchhealth.com
Vanessa
Ulrich
(410) 534-1161
vulrich@sage-growth.com
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