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June 6, 2005, San Jose, CA.
TeleVital Inc., one of the world’s largest providers of telemedicine products and services has just been granted FDA clearance for its latest product: VitalWare VMS™. VitalWare VMS is TeleVital’s remote real-time bed-side monitoring solution allowing for wired and wireless bed-side monitoring from any clinical location in the world. The technology can be adopted for use in almost any critical and intensive care environment. “We are very excited about this milestone, and look forward to submitting another two FDA submissions before the end of this year”, says Ravi Amble, CEO of TeleVital Inc.
VitalWare VMS has been developed to increase healthcare efficiencies while addressing the medical needs of critical and intensive care units which lack the professional resources and capital to monitor their patients adequately. VitalWare VMS allows hospitals to leverage the skills of medical specialists located anywhere, in order to provide better care to their patients while maintaining staff levels. The result is increased quality of care at a lower cost.
“The TeleVital system will benefit many rural areas of the country in two ways. One it will provide a low cost solution in rural parts of Nevada. The second important rural issue it will address are staffing shortages and training. This is a solution that provides back-up from a larger tertiary care facility to a small rural hospital.” says Gerald Ackerman, Director of the Office of Rural Health, University of Nevada School of Medicine.
The solution will go live next month, where critical care patients will be remotely monitored by specialists located more then 200 miles away. Battle Mountain Hospital Administrator, Peggy Lindsey told Business Week Magazine: “We in rural America can really use equipment like this.”
The United States is heading into a major healthcare crisis. Currently twenty percent of the US population suffers from one or more chronic diseases costing one trillion dollars annually. The chronic disease crisis is compounded by an increasing national shortage of healthcare professionals.
Remote monitoring of critical care patients by off-site specialists using telemedicine technology is proven to work. Studies have found that around-the-clock remote monitoring by an Intensivist, reduced patient ICU mortality, incidence of ICU complications, and length of stay while at the same down reducing expenditures.
TeleVital Inc. is poised to revolutionize the delivery of healthcare services, having already developed and deployed solutions in over 180 locations throughout the world. The solutions, which leverage the Internet, have allowed medical professionals to triage patient care, and provide their specialized services to underserved populations.
“Currently 81% of patients have incomplete medical records, accounting for 8% of all medical errors. TeleVital’s goal is to ensure the availability of all clinical data” adds Ravi Amble. TeleVital is expecting to reach over 300 worldwide installations before the end of the year.
For more information click here; or E-mail at: info@televital.com
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