Telemedicine & Communications Solutions
Imagine turning on your computer, clicking an email, and finding a message from a International or remote community health center. The email record has an attachment that contains heart sounds, which you could actually listen to and analyze on your desktop. Or imagine it could contain a picture of a damaged finger, a sore throat, or an inflamed eardrum, which could be analyzed and diagnosed with new medical software and connected medical expertise.
After you are finished, you can create a digital medical record, and store the record in an HIPAA compliant (highly secure) database.
As a patient, all you need is your fingerprint to connect you to your medical records. As a physician, on the other side of the Internet connection, you would be able to help the patient and community center to quickly assess the health problems of patient thousands of miles away.
This is not science-fiction, this is telemedicine, an exciting breakthrough whose objective is be to bring the best medical expertise to a remote locations. Telemedicine is generally described as the use of communication equipment to link health care practitioners and patients in different locations for the delivery of clinical care.
The IPX supplied Medical technologies empowers healthcare providers anywhere in the world, to have the ability to capture and send digital images of
- inner ear/nose/throat
- trauma injuries
- soft tissue injuries
- captured ultrasound images
- digital 12-lead electrocardiograms
- digital lung capacity reports
- X-rays
- heart or lung examinations
to Houston based Physicians with 12 years of experience using Telemedicine.
For example, a medical technician in an ambulance in the field, using the Medical Suitcase, can send the medical emergency information to a medical specialist via mobile satellite, cell phone GPRS, Internet, or Wireless 802.11, connected to the closest Saudi clinic or USA Hospital that is equipped with a medical workstation.
Telemedicine allows health care professionals to use connected medical devices in the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of patients in other locations. These devices are enhanced through the use of VSAT telecommunications technology, network encryption innovations, video conferencing, and VOIP. Communication services to remote locations and villages are provided primarily by satellite.
Specialized application software, data storage devices, database management software, and medical devices capable of electronic data collection, storage and transmission are all key components of the telemedicine infrastructure.
Telemedicine customarily uses two methods to transmit images, data and sound - either live, real-time video conference transmission, or "store and forward" transmission, where the consulting professional reviews data asynchronous with its collection.
Many programs employ both transmission capabilities, to maximize efficient use of resources appropriate to the medical services being provided.
IPX provides the communications building blocks that deliver these telemedicine methodologies. IPX advanced networks include VSAT, VOIP, Call Centers, Video conference, Firewalls, WAN optimization and application acceleration, and VPN encrypted networks, that provide the basis for telemedicine.
IPX owns and operates the latest VSAT Earth Station technologies that utilize TDMA mesh networks fr single hop communications. IPX operates a ViaSat Linkway Hub in Fuchsttadt Germany, one of Intelsat’s premier satellite teleports. These facilities/mesh networks eliminate the double hop of most satellite networks, when traffic was routed from a village to the satellite, then down to a major hub station and back through the satellite to another village. The mesh design is thus much more suitable for regional communities of interest, such as clusters of medical centers and clinics that no longer require two transits through the satellite to communicate. This makes video conferencing and voice communications pristine and ideal for telemedicine.
IPX is also a systems integrator for the clinical diagnostic tools necessary to deliver advanced medical care that can be utilized by patients, hospitals, health plans, and employers and caregivers.
In addition to meeting clinical needs, the medical system has been designed to perform in a wide variety of network configurations. The Software uses a unique "routing" protocol and industry-standard encryption to move data between servers and organizations. Any server in a location connected to the Telehealth wide-area network or able to "browse" to the Internet can send and receive data from any other server - with Administrative-level security and access controls in place.
Portable Virtual Physicians Office can be installed anywhere
With IPX partners, IPX provides telemedicine applications that are truly portable and utilized anywhere in the world to solve real world medical problems. Completely tested and integrated kits can be purchased for a variety of applications. Below is a Pelican Case, with full Physicians Office built into a Ruggedized case for transport anywhere in the world.
The Medical Suitcase can be installed in an Ambulance and can be packed and moved to site of medical emergency. First Responders can react quickly to a medical outbreak or emergency.
This portable workstation can interact with Medical Staff in Hospitals, and clinics where expertise can deliver critical consultation and diagnosis to remote sites.
TELEMEDICINE EXPERIENCE
The Telemed systems have been proven to deliver high quality medicine to more than 3,000 workers in Antarctica, and over 120,000 inmates in Texas. Last year over 60,000 patients benefited from this new approach to healthcare.
IPX is licensed to provide these solutions linked to the leaders in Telemedicine based in the Houston Texas Medical Center.
Current Applications:
- Cardiology
- Community Health Program (CHA/P) Training
- Dental / Oral Health
- Dermatology
- Ear, Nose and Throat
- Emergency Room
- Endocrinology
- Family Medicine
- Neurosurgery
- Ophthalmology
- Pediatrics – Out-Patient and In-Patient
- Pediatric Critical Care
- Podiatry – Diabetic Foot Ulcers
- Pulmonology
- Surgery
- Trauma Follow-Up
- Urology
- Women’s Health
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- Locations
- Intelsat
- Loral
- ViaSat
- Altigen
