On September 15/16, 2008, the American Telemedicine Association gathered in Tampa, Florida for a dual-themed Mid-Year Meeting entitled "Smart Home – Smart Patient: Innovative Remote Monitoring for Acute, Chronic and Wellness Care" and "The 3rd Annual Pediatric Telehealth Colloquium."

The industry's vendors that supported the meeting by exhibiting their products and services were invited to be interviewed on camera so that ATA members and other interested individuals who were unable to attend the meeting might also learn about telemedicine's and telehealth's latest innovations. These five- to ten-minute interviews with all 21 vendors that accepted the invitation are available by clicking on the links below. No special software is necessary; simply make sure your speakers are ready and click. This free ATA service comes to you through the generous cooperation of the Home Care Information Network. Interviews were conducted by the editor of Home Care Automation Report, Tim Rowan. More information about the rich media technology used by HCIN is available on their own web site.

Welcome from ATA CEO Jonathan Linkous

Vendor Interviews:

1. AMD Global Telemedicine: Dan McCafferty, VP Global Sales & Corporate Development provides an update regarding the monitoring device vendor's move toward becoming an 'encounter management' company.
   
   
2. Cardiocom: President Daniel Cosentino discusses his home telehealth system, equipment lease option, related nurse call center service option and consulting services.
   
   
3. Critical Signal Technologies: Account Executive Elizabeth Janovsky talks about four interrelated products: home telehealth, PERS, medication reminder and monitoring in multi-tenant buildings.
   
   
4. GBH Communications: Pat Keever, Strategic Accounts Manager, describes a service that installs and supports video and audio conferencing systems in healthcare settings.
   
   
5. GlobalMedia: Managing Director Joel Barthelemy demonstrates hand-held, high-density cameras able to transmit images and live video from operating rooms and clinics to remote specialists and students.
   
   
6. Healthanywhere: President Pramod Gaur discusses his Toronto company's software-based, device independent, remote patient monitoring system.
   
   
7. Infopia: CEO Bryan Sowards demonstrates a portable, Internet-connected glucometer and a thermal weight scale for early identification and prevention of lower-extremity ulcerations.
   
   
8. Intel: Rhonda Chetney brings us up to date about Intel's Digital Health Group and its memorable 2008 entry into home health care.
   
   
9. JEDMED: Product Manager Chris Swift describes a camera system used with various adaptors and scopes in clinical settings, prisons, wellness centers around the world.
   
   
10. LifeWatch Corporation, A Card Guard Company: Sales Director Kirsten Jamerson introduces her company's new wireless, Bluetooth home monitoring devices that broadcast to multiple types of receiving units.
    
    
11. Mary Ann Liebert Publishers: publishes the ATA Journal. Douglas Mitchell, National Sales Manager, talks about other telehealth publications, including results of a new study.
    
    
12. McKesson: Gail Conroy, Telehealth Solutions Specialist for the company's Extended Care Solutions Group, discusses integration between Horizon software for home care and the Health Buddy Appliance from Health Hero Network.
    
    
13. MedApps: CEO Kent Dicks describes 'machine-to-machine' technology: portable glucose and other vital sign monitors that connect via CDMA, GSM and WiMax.
    
    
14. MedSignals: Executive VP Jerome Hahn discusses, and demonstrates, a portable medication reminder with the computing power equivalent to a PDA.
    
    
15. Philips Homehealth Solutions: Senior Director Michael Lemnitzer offers an update on Philips' latest acquisitions, adding PERS, post-discharge cardiac monitoring, wireless vital sign monitoring, medication management devices and eICU monitoring to the company's products and services.
    
    
16. POLYCOM, Inc.: Dr. Deborah Jeffries and Ron Emerson, RN, describe global and domestic video conferencing solutions for real-time communication and education in healthcare.
    
    
17. Providea, Inc.: Sr. Account Executive Eileen Dubin describes her company's video conferencing hosting services, providing sales, implementation and help-desk for Polycom and Tandberg equipment.
    
    
18. Rivulet Communications: Founder & Chief Strategy Officer Steven Rogers describes a system that enables live, high-definition video interaction between operating room and remote specialists and students.
    
    
19. ViTel Net: Marie Mann, RN, Chief Clinical Officer, discusses the company's home telehealth product line, now making Bluetooth capability available in a home unit known for its easy of use.
    
    
20. Viterion TeleHealthcare: Dr. Lisa Roberts, Viterion's Clinical and National Sales Manager, describes the company's move toward wireless capability in its remote patient monitoring systems and announces the emergence of a new eHealth division.