Project RavenCare: global multimedia telemedicine in Alaska

Walid Gabriel Tohme; Jeff R. Collmann; Seong Ki Mun; David J. Vastola

doi:10.1117/12.208817

12 May 1995 Project RavenCare: global multimedia telemedicine in Alaska

Walid Gabriel Tohme, Jeff R. Collmann, Seong Ki Mun, David J. Vastola

Proceedings Volume 2435, Medical Imaging 1995: PACS Design and Evaluation: Engineering and Clinical Issues; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.208817
Event: Medical Imaging 1995, 1995, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Project RavenCare is a testbed for assessing the utility of teleradiology, telemedicine and electronic patient records systems for delivering health care to Native Alaskans in remote villages. It is being established as a joint project between the department of radiology at Georgetown University Medical Center and the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Corporation (SEARHC) in Sitka, Alaska. This initiative will establish a sustained routine clinical multimedia telemedicine support for a village clinic in Hoonah, Alaska and a regional hospital in Sitka. It will link the village clinic in Hoonah to Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital in Sitka. This regional hospital will in turn be linked to Georgetown University Hospital through the T1- VSAT (very small aperture terminal) of the NASA-ACTS (Advanced Communication Technology Satellite). Regional physicians in Hoonah lack support in providing relatively routine care in areas such as radiology and pathology. This project is an initial step in a general plan to upgrade telecommunications in the health care system of the Southeast Alaska region and will address aspects of two problems; limited communication between the village health clinics and the hospital and lack of subspecialty support for hospital-based physicians in Sitka.

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Walid Gabriel Tohme, Jeff R. Collmann, Seong Ki Mun, and David J. Vastola "Project RavenCare: global multimedia telemedicine in Alaska", Proc. SPIE 2435, Medical Imaging 1995: PACS Design and Evaluation: Engineering and Clinical Issues, (12 May 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.208817

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