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Indianapolis, IN (04/24/2008) - Elanza Technologies Inc. and Nightingale Home Health Care today started a project in Telenursing using the Elanza Videophone technology.  The objective of the project is to utilize the videophone technology to provide a 24x7 face to face open communication channel between the Nurse and the Patient, especially for those patients who need critical monitoring by nurses 24 x7. Using the technology, Nightingale RN’s would be able to monitor their patients “live” over video direct from the patient home, without having to incur for repeated nursing visits to the patient home which are often located at long distances form the Nightingale center.

The aim is to provide Nightingale with a cost effective solution for remote patient monitoring, especially in rural areas of Indiana,  and further enhance its capabilities in telenursing and telemedicine.  The project is being coordinated at Nightingale by Marlena Main, LPN (Cardiac Triage / Telemedicine Clinician) who will lead the overall patient monitoring team and outline objectives of the project. (www.homecareforyou.com )

Atlanta, GA (01/23/2008) - 3Com has inducted Elanza Technologies Inc. into the 3com Open Network Program. As part of 3Com’s committment to provide the best possible solutions to its customers, and upon acceptance testing of Elanza’s Open Architecrure Video Telephoney solutions, 3COM has approved and recognized Elanza’s video products as a superior and unique product and service, and hence substantiating it and recommending Elanza’s solution as a unique value to 3Com customers.

About 3Com Open Network Program

The 3Com Open Network™ Program, or 3Com|ON™, is dedicated to finding and supporting exciting new solutions, for seamless integration with the 3Com portfolio. It offers a wealth of resources, including training, solution support and testing, innovative marketing, and business development opportunities for our members.      (www.open.3com.com)

About Elanza Technologies Inc.

 

ELANZA is a certified design house/original design manufacturer, focused on convergence products and digital multimedia embedded products/technologies. ELANZA's design focus includes internet screen phone products [webphones and web-videophones] and table PC products. (www.elanzatech.com)

For more information on Elanza – 3COM, please view the link: http://www.open.3com.com/tcom/viewPartner.html?id=1054

Los Angeles, CA (01/11/2007) - Elanza Technologies Inc. has initiated a dialogue with one of the nation’s largest insurers,  Wellpoint Inc., for utilizing the ElanzaWeb-Videophone™ technology for remote patient monitoring.Wellpoint has expressed an interest in the Elanza’s screen phone based technology for remote chronic disease management capabilities, and for understanding and trying to formulate a medical policy on the same. Elanza is seeking Wellpoint’s involvement for promotion of the concept of using home based video technology for telemedicine and telehealth.

WellPoint currently does not have a medical policy that addresses this technology, but has expressed interest to Elanza in obtaining additional information. The study and evaluation of Elanza’s videophone based remote chronic disease management cpabailities will be conducted by Wellpoint’s Medical Policy and Technology Assessment Committee (MPTAC) which consists of physicians external to WellPoint and who are in active practice, as well as physicians who are medical directors within the company.  Elanza has agreed to support the evaluation process and study with credible scientific evidence and peer-published literature recognized by the relevant medical community, telemedicine and telehealth experts, and the views of medical practitioners practicing in relevant clinical areas, and any other relevant factors. In addition Elanza has agreed to provide project reports and white papers on the successful adoption of screen phone technologies for home based chronic disease management.

Albuquerque, NM (12/13/2007) - Elanza Technologies Inc. and UNM Center for Telehealth (CfTH) announced a cooperation to evaluate Elanza’s home based videophone solution for providing telehealth and telemedicine services. The purpose of the evaluation exercise would be to provide the  Center for Telehealth an opportunity to utilize cost effective and user friendly telephony based telehealth solutions for rural as well as urban patients, enhance UNM’s capabilities as a leader and integral partner in the improvement of the health and wellness of the communities in New Mexico.

The evaluation program would be conducted under the leadership of Dr. Dale Alverson, Medical Director, Center for Telehealth and Cybermedicine at UNM. Dr. Alverson serves as the Medical Director of the Telemedicine Program, Center for Telehealth and Cybermedicine Research at the University of New Mexico . In that role, he has been involved in the planning, implementation, research and evaluation of a Telemedicine system for New Mexico , primarily serving its rural communities, building upon collaborative alliances. He is also Chair of the New Mexico Telehealth Alliance that provides a platform for public-private collaboration and formation of a Telehealth “network of networks” . Dr. Alverson also sits on the Board of Directors  for the Center to Telehealth and E-Health Law ( www.CTEL.org ).

Los Angeles, CA (11/15/2007) - The University of California , Los Angeles department of computer science and Embedded and Reconfigurable Computing Lab has  expressed interest in Elanza’s embedded systems design and in particular focus the Elanza Videophone™ architecture design and embedded technology as part of its pursuant research on TeleHealth and other impending medical applications such as remote caregiving using real-time video connectivity. Elanza’s Video Telephony solution was presented to the UCLA team by Ron Pion, M.D, President and CEO of The Pion Group (www.thepiongroup.com ) as part of Elanza’s efforts to further involve leading telehealth research institutions in the US to include Elanza’s Real-time Video Connectivity solutions a spart of their telehealth and telemedicine programs.

According to Ron Pion, MD, the aim of the evaluation program led by Prof. Majid Sarrafzadeh, PhD at UCLA would be to try and improve the long distance caregiving experience for patients with chronic disease conditions. This program will examine the use of videophones for several scenarios of interactions in various long term care environments outside the home. The discussion will address technical and socioeconomic issues of video mediated communication in long term care settings and potential ways videophone technology can intervene to improve the social presence of family members. The evaluation will review practical challenges pertaining to implementation and usability of videophone applications in institutional settings. Specifically, examples of videophone usage in a nursing home and assisted living setting will be reviewed. These include video-mediated psychometric assessment of patients, interaction among staff and patients, and resident and family members “virtual” participation in interdisciplinary care plan meetings. These examples will highlight issues impacting clinical outcomes, resident and family acceptance, the subjective quality (as perceived by participants) and objective quality (as measured by standardized tools) of video and audio features of commercially available videophones. Furthermore, future trends in commercially available video-telephony in health care will be presented

Los Angeles, CA (10/23/2007) - To listen to the interview click on the link: http://www.bigmediausa.com/archive.asp?aid=10713

 

About Dr. Ronald J. Pion

Ronald J. Pion, M.D. is an Internet appliance and e-health pioneer as well as co-author of the book, Home Health Telecommunications, which addresses the business of caring for patients at home using modern telecommunication Internet technology. According to Dr. Pion, "the use of Internet appliances can become a bridge for patients, especially those who are homebound and disabled, to self-manage and maintain better health". Dr. Pion further commented: "The Elanza suite of products affords health care providers the ability to improve patient care and contain costs while at the same time facilitating awareness of the best medical practices."

Dr. Pion is currently the Chairman and CEO of Medical Telecommunications Associates Inc., a company which he founded in 1996 and which is a provider of advanced telecommunications services to health care markets nationwide. Dr. Pion is also a Professor of Obsterics and Internal Medicine at the UCLA Medical School .

About Elanza Technologies Inc.

Elanza Technologies Inc. is a Chicago based manufacturer of the Elanza Web-Videophone™, to be commercially available later in the year. The product represents a further converged improvement on the earlier Elanza Webphone by offering an integrated video-conferencing solution running on WIN CE 6.0. Using the Internet as a communications medium, this product is expected to be widely accepted for video-conferencing and patient – caregiver connectivity requirements, and is the world’s first WIN CE videophone technology. The Elanza Web-Videophone will provide total convergence for voice, data and video, and has an 8.4” Touch screen display for user friendliness, easy navigation,  improved clarity and resolution of the video images.

Chicago, IL (01/31/2007) - Elanza Technologies has released an "open architecture" videophone that displays full motion, TV quality video at 30 fps on a VGA resolution screen. The ETI 7001, which uses standard RFC SIP protocols, is a lower-cost complement to the company's ETI 206 introduced last December.

According to Elanza, the ETI 7001's open architecture allows it to be easily deployed using standard RFC SIP protocols, thus avoiding proprietary technologies. The unit's design features dual processors -- a main processor, and a media coprocessor -- along with 256 MB of RAM, 128 MB of DiskOnChip flash storage, and 256 MB of additional flash.

http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS6194911029.html

Chicago, IL (12/14/2006) - Elanza Technologies has announced a next-generation, Internet-enabled videophone running Windows CE 5.0. The ElanzaWeb-Videophone ETI206 combines PSTN and VoIP phone calling along with a dazzling array of video conferencing, multimedia, email, Web access, thin client terminal, and other advanced features, according to the company.

The device boasts an 8.4-inch color TFT LCD screen with 170-degree viewing angle, and is capable of playing full-VGA, full-motion (30 fps), TV quality video simultaneously with Internet Explorer-based browsing, according to the company. That sort of multimedia performance is made possible by virtue of its embedded processor, an unspecified SoC (system-on-chip) that integrates a 500 MHz ARM 926 core along with dual 533 MHz DSP cores (which sounds suspiciously like a TI Davinci 644x SoC).

http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS2837867042.html

Normandy, France (11/02/2006) - Lower-Normandy region leads France in the use of Home Monitoring and Therapeutic Education of Chronic Heart Failure patients using the Elanza Webphone™ and IDPM technology developed in Quebec . Caen Teaching Hospital, associated with William Harvey and Trouville-sur-Mer Readaptation Centers has made public its involvement in a demonstration project of the New IT Healthcare technology applied to Chronic Heart Failure patients.

The project is using the Intelligent Distance Patient Monitoring (IDPM) system ported on to the Elanza Webphone™ technology and supplied by Elanza Technologies Inc. to New IT Healthcare. This new technology and concept of electronic monitoring and their compliance to monitoring plan are exceeding health professionals expectancies.

For more information  on this project, refer to the link below:

http://www.newittech.com/telehealth/news/news-normandie.htm

Detroit, MI (05/14/2006) - Elanza Technologies Inc., New IT Healthcare and Video Web Phone (VWP) have joined forces to provide an advanced telehomecare solution to a physician group in the metro Detroit , Michigan area. New IT will provide their Intelligent Distance Patient Monitoring (IDPM) software on the Elanza Webphone™ platform,  and VWP will act as the distributor for the Elanza Webphone™  to be used by the patients. The project will be to manage diabetic patients of Drs. Samson Kpadenou, Gamal Zaki and Bernardo Rojas.

Empowering patients to manage their chronic illness is the major objective of the project. With a patient-centric proactive monitoring tool the doctors believe they can reduce admissions to the hospital and emergency room visits. The ability to monitor the patient’s compliance to their care plan and their medication regimen as well as the unique functionality of being able to adjust care plan and medication online is seen as the way to contain cost and to prevent exacerbation of signs and symptoms.

In a statement issued by Ken Raznick, President of VWP he stated, “ I believe that we can improve the quality of health care, reduce the cost, help a lot of people & create a WIN, WIN, situation for all!”