May 2000 Welcome to the TelehealthNews, the Internet resource for health professionals. Please feel free to pass this newsletter onto your friends and colleagues. Georgia Telemedicine Association Georgia offered the first statewide telemedical program in the United States. Unfortunately it is a T-1 point to point system with low, although growing, utilization.
Registration is by email and the only cost to attendees is that of the connecting phone call.
Also there are no written materials or handouts from the program, but by exchange of email addresses amongst presenters and interested participants multiple benefits have been reported to us. Using wireless technology, Pediatric Software provides technology to the Children's Hospital of the Greenville Hospital System to provide a complete medical record system housed in a mobile van that is used in making house calls. A server is housed in the van, making files and other record keeping software available to practitioners within a wide roaming range. Backup files are created and updated by connecting the mobile server to the hospital's wired network. Electronic medical records have much greater security than paper files.