New CompuMed Capability Provides ECG Over-Reads With Any Third
Party Machines
CompuMed, Inc. (OTCBB:CMPD) (www.compumed.net)
-- a medical informatics company serving the healthcare community with
diagnostic software solutions -- today announced that it has expanded
into the occupational telemedicine market by entering into an agreement
to supply ECG over-reads through its CardioGram™ telecardiology service
to a large unit of a Fortune 50 company with a network of company-owned
workplace clinics servicing more than 40,000 employees.
Maurizio Vecchione, CompuMed’s President and CEO, said, “Our move into
occupational healthcare represents another possible expansion arena for
the company’s clinical care centralized ECG services. Increasingly
employers, especially large ones, are in the front lines of having to
provide specialized care. Our telecardiology service enables them to
deliver specialist interpretation of ECGs at the point-of-care as they
need it. Our solution is a cost-effective way to access cardiology
expertise.” He added that a confidentiality agreement precluded CompuMed
from releasing the name of the company.
CompuMed’s market expansion is the result of a new Electronic Medical
Record (EMR) solution allowing CompuMed to receive ECGs and provide
over-reads for any customer, anywhere, regardless of the type of ECG
machine being used by that customer. Historically, the company was
limited to clients with CompuMed ECG machines.
“We are excited about this important milestone for CompuMed,” said Mr.
Vecchione. “Now we can target customers with two new ways to send us
ECGs to process. They can either transmit them electronically from their
own communication enabled ECG machines or they can use a new broadband
fax-to-e-mail system that we provide if their existing ECG machines do
not have communication capabilities.” This means that customers can
access CompuMed’s ECG over-reading services no matter what type or brand
of ECG machine they are using in their facilities.
“This represents another example of how our commitment to electronic
medical records impacts the safety, effectiveness and cost of healthcare
by having the right information at the right place at the right time,”
Mr. Vecchione said. “CompuMed can help any healthcare provider that uses
ECGs extensively into using integrated digital medical records, an
important part of the Obama administration’s challenge to computerize
all medical records by 2014.”
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