A Medical Device Daily
Telemedicus (Houston) said it is marketing its new DREAMS fixed-site platform for research purposes to federal and state agencies.
The company’s disaster relief and emergency medical services (DREAMS) technology is an advanced communication system designed to allow doctors to “virtually” see and direct treatment of patients through various monitoring devices and high-def video that transmits the patient’s data into real-time. The technology “virtually” places doctors and emergency room specialists inside ambulances, med-flight helicopters, and other remote sites, Telemedicus said.
The company said it is establishing relationships for future sales with federal and state agencies by offering the fixed-site platform for research. Telemedicus is showcasing its capabilities to agencies, such as Homeland Security, the Department of Defense and state and local organizations that are testing their plans for expanded telemedicine operations. The company said it would sell the DREAMS platform as a teaching model to educate future users about the advantage of its technology. In addition, it is offering the platform to several research institutions to develop new applications, hardware and the integration of support products.
“Our goal is to be at the forefront of education and implementation of telemedicine,” said Steve Price, COO of Telemedicus. “Providing our service in these areas will give us valuable market share in the governmental sector and the lead on R&D.”
Telemedicus’ DREAMS technology turns 9-1-1 ambulances, clinics or medical transportation vehicles into mobile trauma centers or tele-healthcare locations, the company said. The technology integrates components made by Advantech (Taipei, Taiwan), Cisco (San Jose, California), Dell (Roundrock, Texas) and Panasonic (Tokyo).
Last fall, LipidLabs (Houston) acquired Telemedicus, a technology developed jointly by Texas A&M (College Station, Texas) and the University of Texas Health Science Center (San Antonio) using nearly $20 million in U.S. government grants (Medical Device Daily, Aug. 6, 2007).
In November Telemedicus agreed to buy My Healthy Access (Houston), which operates mini-medical clinics in Wal-Mart stores, providing care for non-life-threatening episodic conditions. The clinics were first installed into Wal-Mart stores in 2006. Telemedicus said at the time that the acquisition would open new markets for its DREAMS technology (MDD, Nov. 9, 2007).
In other new ventures: Global Research Services (GRS; Rockville, Maryland) reported the development and implementation of a new service platform for Phase I data management known as Private Label Reserve. The service is intended to allow clinical sites that do not have data management services to provide site-specific branded Oracle Clinical remote data capture and management.
Through GRS’s Oracle-based systems, Phase I centers now have the opportunity to access the benefits of a top performance data management application previously out of reach due to heavy fiscal investment in IT infrastructure, personnel and support services, the company noted.