Project RavenCare in Alaska: initial implementation

Author

Tohme, Walid G. ; Collmann, Jeff ; Mun, Seong K. ; Vastola, David J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Radiol., Georgetown Univ. Hospital, Washington, DC, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

27-29 Mar 1995

Firstpage

169

Lastpage

172

Abstract

Project RavenCare is an initiative designed to provide sustained routine clinical telemedicine/teleradiology support for a village clinic in Hoonah, Alaska and Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital in Sitka. The village clinic is linked to the regional hospital and this hospital is in turn linked to Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) through the NASA-ACTS (Advanced Communication Technology Satellite). Project RavenCare is a joint project between the Department of Radiology at GUMC and the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Corporation (SEARHC) in Sitka. Regional physicians in Hoonah lack support in providing relatively routine care in areas such as radiology and pathology. This project will address the existing communication problem between the village health clinics and the hospital as well as the lack of subspecialty support for hospital-based physicians in Sitka

Keywords

diagnostic radiography; health care; multimedia communication; patient care; satellite communication; teleconferencing; Advanced Communication Technology Satellite; Alaska; Department of Radiology; Georgetown University Medical Center; Hoonah; Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital; NASA-ACTS; Project RavenCare; Sitka; Southeast Alaska Regional Health Corporation; communication; hospital-based physicians; initial implementation; pathology; radiology; regional hospital; regional physicians; routine care; subspecialty support; sustained routine clinical telemedicine/teleradiology support; village clinic; Artificial satellites; Communications technology; Hospitals; Medical services; Pathology; Radiology; Satellite broadcasting; Scattering; Telemedicine; Transportation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Telemedicine On-Line Today, 1995. Research, Practice, and Opportunities., Proceedings of the National Forum

Conference_Location

McLean, VA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5860-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MTOL.1995.504551

Filename

504551