Windber, Pa.-based Chan Soon-Shiong Medical Center is in the process of creating a new telehealth program equipped with monitoring technology, The Tribune-Democrat reported April 15.
The hospital is creating a telehealth program that will collaborate with rural hospitals by bringing technology into patients' homes. Here are five things to know:
- In collaboration with Dten, a company that creates devices for video-conferencing, the hospital is creating a computer monitor that can be installed in patients' homes to remind them about their telehealth appointments.
- Tom Kurtz, president and CEO of Chan Soon-Shiong Medical Center, showed a prototype of the technology to the secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
- The technology is currently in development.
- The new telemedicine program will also allow collaboration among independent rural hospitals.
- The hospital has signed clinical affiliations with Punxsutawney, Pa., and Indiana, Pa., hospitals to jointly recruit hard-to-find specialists who can connect with patients through the telehealth monitor.
Mr. Kurtz said more information about the new telehealth technology will be unveiled this summer.