CYBR Granted Patent on Telemed Technology $25 billion market
CYBeR-CARE Granted Patent On Its Telemedicine Technology
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.--(BW HealthWire)--Nov. 19, 1999--CYBeR-CARE, Inc.
(Nasdaq:CYBR - news) received a patent award (No. 5987519) for a broad-based
telemedicine system using voice, video and data encapsulation for the purpose of
communicating medical information between central monitoring stations and remote patient
monitoring stations.
The company's Electronic House Call System (EHC), an Internet-based system that remotely
monitors chronically ill patients at their home, will utilize this patented technology. The patent
essentially covers all data-packet based remote patient monitoring applications transmitted
over
standard telephone lines, cable television networks, ISDN, DSL, all internet and intranet
configurations, local and wide area networks, ATM networks, and wireless communication
systems.
The technology constitutes the core foundation of the emerging $25 billion market that enables
healthcare providers to improve access to medical services and lower the cost of delivering
quality care to rural and home-bound chronically ill patients.
CYBeR-CARE's patented technology utilized via the Electronic House Call System will
allow
healthcare providers to monitor chronically ill patients at their home as well as allow patients
to communicate to healthcare providers and other patients. The EHC can also remotely take
patients' vital signs and record their medical information that can be accessed by medical
professionals anywhere.
CYBeR-CARE already has an initial order for 250 EHC Systems from Cambridge Medical
Centers of Deerfield Beach, Fla.
``By enabling the ongoing monitoring of critical indicators of the patients' health status
together
with improved patient and provider access to essential information, this technology should
dramatically enhance the high quality of care and patient satisfaction. This crucial step
forward
in healthcare services capabilities should result in a reduced incidence of unnecessary high
cost
interventions such as emergency room visits, and an increased sophistication of health
services
in the home and the workplace,' said Max E. Stachura, M.D., Telemedicine Center Director
at
the Medical College of Georgia and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in
Telemedicine.
Based in Boynton Beach, Fla., CYBeR-CARE is a technology assisted disease management
company and also operates physical, occupational and speech therapy centers, and
pharmaceutical services and is one of, if not the world's largest international air ambulance
transport service.* |
