ClearOne www.clearone.com is working with American Doctors Online www.adoltelemed.com and PhoneDOCTORX www.phonedoctorx.com through a partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health www.mass.gov/eohhs/gov/departments/dph to provide secure cloud-based communications between the National TeleNursing Center and telemedicine carts used by clinicians in remote locations.
This is being accomplished through a grant awarded to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) by the Office for Victims of Crime, in collaboration with the National Institute of Justice www.nij.gov, and the Office on Violence Against Women www.justice.gov/ovw.
The purpose of the grant funding to the Massachusetts DPH was to establish the National Sexual Assault TeleNursing Center (NTC) that uses telemedicine technology to provide remote consultations 24/7. The consultations provided by Massachusetts Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE) inform the clinicians caring for adult and adolescent sexual assault patients in remote and/or underserved regions of the U.S.
Today, ClearOne’s Spontania www.spontania.com collaboration platform is being used by the National Sexual Assault TeleNursing Center located at the Newton Wellesley Hospital in Massachusetts www.nwh.gov. Spontania provides the Newton MA-based TeleNursing Center a simple, secure, and HIPAA-compliant method to conduct face-to-face video calls with remote facilities
ClearOne’s cloud-based services enables service providers and technical partners to expand their own offerings by deploying Spontania technology within their own networks. The services also build on other ClearOne technologies to advance and enhance the range of conferencing and collaboration solutions.
In the area of child sexual abuse, states such as Florida, Georgia, California, and Utah are using some aspect of telemedicine to deliver sexual assault forensic exams to children in rural or tribal areas.
According to the newsletter “OVC News and Program Updates”, a study conducted by the University of California-Davis http://ucdavis.edu found that the use of telemedicine to assist in the examination of sexually assaulted children in rural communities resulted in significant positive changes in the methods used in examinations.