Instant Roll-in-Place deploymentUp to 50% savings on electricity or power costsUp to 75% floor area savings50-80% more efficient .. GreenInside outside air never mixIndoor, outdoor, or vehicular deployment
Patented closed loop cooling systemFire-Proof and Water-ProofPatented suspension eliminates shock and vibrationNo raised floor requirementsLost cost instant relocation or redeploymentHigh-tech Cyber-Lock security
SPEAR is a miniature high-density mobile armored rack system to build data centers at much reduced costs. It provides a sealed hardened self-contained and controlled environment making critical electronics invulnerable to dust, dirt, heat, cold, fire, earthquake, tornado, explosion, and power system losses. It may be used to house interoperative emergency communications, cellular and wireless base stations, computers and storage systems, electronic recorders, and almost any conventional rack mounted systems that require the highest levels of protection.
The SPEAR gives computer electronics a controlled environment for optimal performance with much reduced risks. Because expensive components are not subjected to hostile extremes, dust and dirt, they can be expected to perform more reliably, even under adverse conditions, with much improved ROI. These systems may be used to store medical records (EHR), telemedicine, teletriage, and other patient data in extremely secure fashion.
LifeBot® provides exclusive patented telemedicine and telehealth solutions and digital collaborative systems to eliminate disparate communications issues during emergencies with full interoperability. We also integrate next generation broadband capabilities not inherent in today’s interoperative digital radio communications so the benefits of achieving telemedicine, telehealth, and emergency preparedness objectives may all be fully realized. To learn more about these systems, please contact us.
LifeBot® Odyssey is clinical decision support software that significantly lowers the time required for patient assessments substantially reducing costs. Odyssey is fast, user friendly, clinically thorough and safe; it also improves record keeping. Odyssey products are proven for many years to improve the efficiency of clinical resources, reduce risk and ultimately save money. It enables rapid accurate decisions in just minutes and intelligently guides encounters while enforcing standards of care. Accurate patient assessments may be performed in a fraction of the time.
Odyssey may be utilized at the priority dispatch level, in emergency departments, clinical patient non-emergency calls centers, and in telemedicine tele-hub operations. It now occupies more than sixty percent of the market for General Practitioners in the U.K. handling more than 20 million calls over a 15 year period without serious legal entanglements. No other clinical decision support software can make this claim.
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“The diversion of non-emergency calls to a qualified nurse will save the Philadelphia Fire Department (PFD) as much as $2.5 million annually by increasing productivity and reducing the wear-and-tear on vehicles and equipment, as well as reducing stress on personnel.”, City of Philadelphia Controller Lifting the Burden on Emergency Medical Services more..
Data shows that by using Odyssey to support nurse teletriage, EMAS saved thousands of unnecessary transports… After a software investment of two years, it paid for itself within the first month of operation. The service saved over $3 million in one year..now with more than $9 million in savings., East Midlands Ambulance Service view more..
“The coincidence of sophisticated software and critical mass of skilled nurses sets the scene for innovation…” St. George, Branney, Telenursing..A Revolution. Healthline view more..
Odyssey clinical decision support systems enable a vast synthesis of clinical knowledge relevant to the patient’s needs to be available to the user instantaneously – at the simple click of a mouse.
An early report on teletriage from Dallas EMS indicated a reduction in nonemergent transports of 20-30%. Now teletriage systems are being introduced in Seattle, Richmond, and Houston. A report by the Controller of the City of Philadelphia projects savings of $2.5 million annually for city EMS services through the deployment of nurse teletriage systems. view more..
Nonemergent medical 911 calls are routed to a teletriage call center to prioritize dispatches for much increased efficiencies. Resources are redirected to true emergencies decreasing response times and significantly increasing the quality of patient care. This may significantly reduce hospital ED over-crowding and over-utilization. This may also substantially reduce the asssociated costs to engine company and law enforcement responders.
Odyssey may be custom configured to automatically track whether an encounter is “immediate”, “urgent” or “no special urgency”. Since the LifeBot® is the first and only EMS/ED teletriage telemedicine communications workstation that manages both teletriage and ALS calls, transitions may be elegantly managed from one powerful system, even with voice and video recording capabilities.
Call Screening in Dallas: Triage with Care Journal of Emergency Medicine (JEMS), February 1983 “Dr. Clawson calls the nurse screening approach the “Cadillac” of selective dispatch philosophies. We asked Leilani Starks, RN, coordinator of the Dallas Fire Department’s call screening program, to describe the system there and the special challenges it presents.” view more…
Telephone Triage: The Quiet Revolution in Canada O’Hanley, Telemedicine Journal and e-Health – March 2004 : “The computer revolution has for almost a decade been central to a nursing revolution known as telephone triage. The registered nurse can be virtually out in any community to help patients and their caregivers make informed decisions on appropriate emergent intervention and the venue commensurate with the determined level of necessity.” This Canadian system handles 100,000 calls a month with 300 nurses. It has handled over 7 million calls for over 10 years without any significant patient legal issues. view more…
ED Telephone Triage: Gridlock or Access Sheila Wheeler : “Timely and appropriate access to care in the emergency department (ED) setting is a problem which has reached crisis proportions. Overcrowding (too many clients) and overutilization (innapropriate and unnecessary ED visits) impede access to healthcare services, sometimes barring those who genuinely need emergency care.” view more…
The Case for Publicly Funded Medical Call Centers Schmidt, Hertz, : “60% – 80% of pediatric ED visits are nonurgent or unnecessary (an office visit the next day or self care would be safe and effective). The unnecessary visit rate is lower for adults.” view more…
The Future of Telepractice Bio-medicine, Sheila Wheeler, October 2006 : “…in the future, many will practice from large national call centers. In these “mega call centers”, nurses may serve as the coordinator from the “hub” of an integrated computer and phone system — a network of phone-based health care services, calls ranging from crisis level to information-based and from telemedicine and internet based service to “POTs” — “plain old telephone” lines.” view more…
NASEMSO Input to NHTSA Strategic Plan – Docket No. NHTSA-2009-0171 January 4, 2010, Docket from National Association of State EMS Officials, mentioning LifeBot® EMS Workstation by name, that addresses major issues in safety for EMS and first responders. Obviously, if EMS emergency responses may be lowered significantly, as indicated by the teletriage documents above, then this safety for providers may be substantially increased. Costs would not only be reduced for EMS, but law enforcement responders as well. view more…
Tele-Nursing – A Revolution? Ian St. George and Michelle Branney, Healthline, “The coincidence of sophisticated software and critical mass of skilled nurses sets the scene for innovation… Telenursing should become a career path for nurses…” view more…
Telemed Bibliography
Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Could Save $197 billion Kaufman Foundation – January 2010 : Report by Kauffman Foundation and Brookings Institute economist Robert E. Litan. “Remote monitoring can spot health problems sooner, reduce hospitalization, improve life quality and save money,” The United States economy could save $197 billion over 25 years by implementing policies that support remote monitoring and other telemedicine technologies. A failure to encourage healthcare providers to take advantage of telemedicine would cut the projected savings by almost $44 billion view more…
Survey: Consumers psyched about telemedical remote monitoring “A new survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers concluded that almost three-fourths of U.S. consumers say that they’d use telemedical services, which they defined as remote monitoring to track their condition and vital signs…. Researchers concluded that half of consumers would be willing to get healthcare online or through other computer technology instead of face-to-face care for non-emergency visits.” view more…
Broadband Internet’s Value for Rural America. USDA – Economic Research Report – August 2009 “The cost of not having telemedicine thus was estimated to average $370,000 per annum for the 24 rural hospitals. Communities with larger hospitals (2,000 or more patient encounters per month) would be forgoing over $500,000 per year if telemedicine were not offered.” Obviously for groups of hospitals or large provider organizations this means millions in savings regionally. view more…
Predicted utilization of emergency medical services telemedicine in decreasing ambulance transports. Prehospital Emergency Care, Haskins, Mayrose – 12/2002 “Use of EMS telemedicine could result in an approximately 15% decrease in ambulance transports when it alone is added to the prehospital care provider’s armamentarium. Emphasis for implementation should be placed on younger patients and an identified subset of chief complaints conducive to management using telemedicine.” view more…
National Telemedicine Initiatives: Essential to Healthcare Reform Telemedicine and eHealth, American Telemedicine Association – July 2009 “…telemedicine offers significant opportunities to address the issues of inequities in access to care, cost containment, and quality enhancement.” This paper by top telemedicine authorities illustrates where substantially more savings may be realized beyond the above references. view more…
Emergency Prepardness
JAC Report to Congress and the 9/11 Commission 12/2002 Kevin Martin, FCC Chairman – February 4, 2008 “In order to receive the benefits of telemedicine, electronic health care records,and other healthcare benefits, health providers must have access to underlying broadband infrastructure.” This report and recommendations from some of the nation’s most prominent officials also recommends IP based communications. The LifeBot® EMS Workstation is the only such IP based VOIP workstation available. view more…
TelePresence: Video conferencing, video recording, instant messaging and data transfers may all be performed between hospital facilities, hospital departments, and ambulances.P25 700MHz: Add wireless broadband capacity and redundancy to 700 MHz P25 deployments enabling EMS telemedicine.Ambulance Telemedicine: Fully deployable with LifeBot® prehospital ambulance based telemedicine systems.STEMI 12-lead ECG: High capacity broadband compatible with ALL manufacturer’s 12-lead and ePCR software systems.Multicast: Instantly group multicast or conference using voice or video teleconferencing during major emergencies.ED Security: May include site security management with video displays of ambulance bay, heliport, etc. and manage remote door access directly from the communications systems display.
Grants: Qualifies for existing rural broadband, interoperative State, Homeland Security and HRSA grant proposals.Rapid Information Access: Includes custom private portal system for fast access to protocols, SOPs, and any critical information sharing for emergency preparedness.Instant Messaging and Paging: Send instant messaging e-mail alerts and mass file or data distribution to hospitals or providers directly from private secure portal display.TeleTrauma: Send live or recorded video or images directly from the scene to hospital and surgeons or neurologists.TeleStroke: Perform live or recorded stroke assessments in the field and/or from the home with videoconferencing.Upgrade Path: Upgradeable to future LifeBot® patented technologies for ED teletriage and telehealth home care.
The LifeBot® EMS Workstation is the first and only EMS telemedicine communications workstation that is a VOIP (Voice Over IP) based system with full compatibility and interoperability with digital radio systems including 700MHz P25, 800 MHz trunked, UHF, VHF, TETRA, and Phone/PSTN systems. Another first is the ability to talk throughout the Emergency Department using an optional portable telephone on both radio and telephone communications
The workstation utilizes proven ‘best of class’ softwares combined with a powerful computing platform so emergency professionals can truly multi-task communications and access to critical information. The communications hardware and software utilized is now deployed in more than 3500 locations. The system is fully upgradeable to our patented technologies. This system offers much improved prospective ROI (Return On Investment) and savings because of its increased future compatibilities and upgrade paths.
The workstation is the only system to include a 24/7/365 web based secure communications portal system that may be utilized anywhere with a conventional web browser to instantly access critical information and instantly page or deliver text messages to other providers.
LifeBot® systems are designed by R. Lee Heath, the renowned inventor of hands-free ‘combo’ pads making possible the modern Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) who has been designing emergency advanced life support communications systems for almost 40 years.
In November 2010, LifeBot® signed an agreement for DREAMStm, the advanced ambulance telemedicine system developed by the U.S. Army Materiel Command, Texas A&M University and the UTHealth Science Center at Houston. This system may be installed into the LifeBot® EMS Workstation. For more details on this system, please visit the web site link listed below.
LifeBot® provides exclusive patented telemedicine and telehealth solutions and digital collaborative systems to eliminate disparate communications issues during emergencies with full interoperability. We also integrate next generation broadband capabilities not inherent in today’s interoperative digital radio communications so the benefits of achieving telemedicine, telehealth, and emergency preparedness objectives may all be fully realized. To learn more about these systems, please contact us.
Fierce Mobile Healthcare by Neil Versel November 24, 2009 — 2:19pm ET
In our “Also Noted” section today, we mention some new telemedicine breakthroughs from medical inventor R. Lee Heath, the same person who developed the technology that underlies the automatic external defibrillator. Who is Heath and why is he someone to keep an eye on in the world of telemedicine and mobile healthcare? A recent interview in EMS Professional magazine answers those questions.
His current company, LifeBot, helps design communications systems for emergency medical care and–thanks to some Department of Homeland Security grants and contracts–response to mass-casualty incidents. Heath also had a hand in the mobile teletrauma video links now in use in Tucson, Ariz., and Baton Rouge, La., that FierceMobileHealthcare profiled in one of our first issues earlier this year. Those Wi-Fi-based systems were built with federal seed money, but the next generation of wireless Internet technology promises to cover a much broader area with a single router and be more suited for use in a motor vehicle such as an ambulance. Expect costs to plummet even as speed and network reliability increase.
“The door is opening and you can concentrate on quality patient care while patient data flows transparently to the hospital,” Heath says. “Less talking and more patient care will be the end result of current trends.”
LifeBot® provides exclusive patented telemedicine and telehealth solutions and digital collaborative systems to eliminate disparate communications issues during emergencies with full interoperability. We also integrate next generation broadband capabilities not inherent in today’s interoperative digital radio communications so the benefits of achieving telemedicine, telehealth, and emergency preparedness objectives may all be fully realized. To learn more about these systems, please contact us.
R. Lee Heath, the founder of LifeBot, was interviewed by Dan White of EMS Professional Magazine. This article comments about Next Generation Wi-Fi connectivity enabling the use of EMS Telemedicine.
LifeBot® provides exclusive patented telemedicine and telehealth solutions and digital collaborative systems to eliminate disparate communications issues during emergencies with full interoperability. We also integrate next generation broadband capabilities not inherent in today’s interoperative digital radio communications so the benefits of achieving telemedicine, telehealth, and emergency preparedness objectives may all be fully realized. To learn more about these systems, please contact us.
Dan White comments about EMS telemedicine and the opportunities for advancing quality of patient care in an article entitled, “Stop Talking” published on the site ems1.com.
LifeBot® provides exclusive patented telemedicine and telehealth solutions and digital collaborative systems to eliminate disparate communications issues during emergencies with full interoperability. We also integrate next generation broadband capabilities not inherent in today’s interoperative digital radio communications so the benefits of achieving telemedicine, telehealth, and emergency preparedness objectives may all be fully realized. To learn more about these systems, please contact us.
Hospitals and Health Networks reports “Mobile Video Systems Link ED” by Neil Versel
“Jonathan Linkous, CEO of the American Telemedicine Association, Washington, D.C., says residents of major metropolitan areas should expect most ambulances to have mobile video and data links within a decade.”
“I think five years is more reasonable,” says Rifat Latifi, M.D., director of telemedicine for trauma and critical care at the University of Arizona and the University Medical Center in Tucson. “It should be part of our practice.”
LifeBot® provides exclusive patented telemedicine and telehealth solutions and digital collaborative systems to eliminate disparate communications issues during emergencies with full interoperability. We also integrate next generation broadband capabilities not inherent in today’s interoperative digital radio communications so the benefits of achieving telemedicine, telehealth, and emergency preparedness objectives may all be fully realized. To learn more about these systems, please contact us.
