New customers represented in today’s announcement include three prominent health systems, all of whom switched to the InTouch Telemedicine System from their existing solution providers. InTouch Health is seeing this trend continue in 2013 with the just completed conversion of an academic Joint Commission certified Comprehensive Stroke Center in the Midwest from a competing vendor. In addition, 2012 marked several other key market leading indicators of InTouch Health’s TeleStroke leadership:
- Long-standing customers such as St. Joseph Mercy Oakland (The Michigan Stroke Network) and Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center (The IDA-ORE Network), all renewed long-term contracts with InTouch Health.
- Many prominent hospitals further expanded their InTouch Health-enabled telemedicine networks including Duke University Hospital, Mission Health, Rush University Medical Center, Thomas Jefferson University, UT Southwestern Medical Center, WakeMed, and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
- InTouch Health is also a comprehensive acute care telemedicine platform provider for many of the nation’s largest Integrated Delivery Networks including HCA, Providence Health & Services, Dignity Health, and PinnacleHealth.
“We
are honored to be working with many of the nation’s top hospitals to
innovate new healthcare delivery models that save lives by providing
timely access to specialist care while lowering costs,” said Yulun Wang,
Ph.D., Chairman and CEO for InTouch Health. Dr. Wang added, “As
TeleStroke continues to be adopted as a standard of care, our customers
continue to expand into several more clinical applications where the
unmet needs of the patient population are significant. InTouch Health
remains poised to lead the rapid adoption for acute care telemedicine.”
TeleStroke
networks allow leading neuroscience centers to extend their services to
outlying hospitals in a “hub and spoke” arrangement to serve the unmet
needs of surrounding communities. TeleStroke networks have been shown
to be effective in improving access to specialists and treatment
modalities for stroke patients leading to improved outcomes. TeleStroke
may also reduce the incidence of long-term disability and improve
quality of life for stroke patients while reducing overall healthcare
costs.
Source: InTouch Health