MEP Looks to Expand Federal Healthcare Teleconferencing with New Partnership
Mission Essential Personnel has formed a formal partnership with HealthSpot in an effort to expand veterans’ and federal employees’ access to treatment from doctors, MEP announced today.
Through the partnership, MEP hopes to build upon a pilot program it is conducting with Central Ohio Primary Care and deploy a two-way videoconferencing system that can also take and transmit readings such as temperature and blood pressure.
Such a station could allow for virtual doctor’s visits outside of normal office hours. The station, known
Chris Taylor, CEO, MEP
as Care4, aims to primarily assist with minor illnesses, skin conditions, allergies and preventive medicine.
According to Sean Rushton, a spokesperson for MEP, the product may help cut healthcare costs. “If implemented across the federal health system, you could see savings of 40 to 50 percent of all federal government health care spending.”
MEP said they expect to launch the system in first quarter of 2012. Initially, it will focus on the military and the federal government, and then branch out to select global opportunities.
“About 30 percent of the Pentagon’s defense budget is consumed by healthcare expenses,” said Chris Taylor, CEO of MEP. “Our returning women and men in uniform, veterans, and federal employees deserve exceptional care at far lower cost.”
A video about the Care4 Station is available here.
Posted by Gino Troiani
on Monday, December 19th, 2011. Filed under Healthcare IT.
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It is the best system to be near patients and patients near providers and helth operators. That will done a family sensation, a family where cares are the result of patients’s lived and operators experience.
Thanks and kind regards Claudio Alpaca
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