Project RavenCare in Alaska: initial implementation

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