Medical Missions For Children Announces Sterling Commerce Software Donation to Global Telemedicine & Teaching Network
Industry-leading Gentran software to facilitate efficient volunteer physician access to critical patient data
PATERSON, N.J. - Medical Missions for Children, a non-profit organization featuring a Global Telemedicine and Teaching Network that enables children's hospitals outside the United States to consult with U.S. hospitals and medical specialists to help catastrophically ill children, today announced that Sterling Commerce, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SBC Communications, Inc. (NYSE: SBC) has donated its industry-leading Gentran software, that helps organizations leverage and extend their legacy and EDI systems to integrate internal business processes with their e-business communities, to Medical Missions for Children.
The software will allow Medical Missions for Children to continue its work helping critically ill children in medically underserved communities. Specifically, the software will be used to collect, store and transmit electronic patient data from remote hospitals to Medical Missions for Children which will then store, Web-enable, and make this data available to local mentoring caregivers in advance of a real-time telemedicine session. The Gentran software handles standardized data formats, such as EDI and XML, which are used in the healthcare/HIPPA arena.
"We are pleased to join Medical Missions for Children as an active supporter of its worldwide telemedicine and education network," says Mark Keiffer, Sterling Commerce CEO. "Our Gentran software is a perfect fit for Medical Missions for Children and we are excited that it will help facilitate the treatment of children around the world."
"Sterling has graciously stepped up to the plate and has provided us with software that is critical to fulfill our need to transport electronic patient information between remote hospitals and local mentoring physicians in the Medical Missions for Children network," says Ken Konikowski, chief technology officer, Medical Missions for Children. "This gift moves us dramatically forward in our goal of tying physicians and their patients together with other caregivers in the U.S. to allow rapid consultation and diagnosis for critically ill children."
The Medical Missions for Children Global Telemedicine and Teaching Network is made possible through a group of volunteer physicians and hospitals in the U.S. and partners including the United Nations, The Brody School of Medicine, the Department of Defense, the United States Agency for International Development, the World Bank, and Polycom.
"As we continue to expand our telemedicine network, it has become increasingly important that we ensure patient data is immediately available to our volunteer physicians and hospitals prior to and during a patient consultation," said Frank Brady, chairman, Medical Missions for Children. "Sterling Commerce's generous donation of its Gentran family of software will save critical preparation time and ensure our participating physicians are fully prepared for consultations. Sterling Commerce's software works hand-in-hand with our use of Polycom video conferencing systems and is an essential component in successful patient treatment."
"We look forward to working with Sterling Commerce and recognize that without the generous support of our network of sponsors and supporters, our demanding mission of meeting the medical needs of children in underserved countries would be even more difficult," Brady adds.
About Medical Missions for Children
Medical Missions for Children (MMC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to elevating the care of catastrophically ill children in underserved U.S. and international communities. MMC created and manages its programs through the organization's Global Telemedicine and Teaching Network™ (GTTN) - an interactive, satellite and Internet-based communications platform. The Global Telemedicine & Teaching Network supports the real-time treatment of remote, critically ill children, and through a fully FCC licensed broadcast station, WMMC, broadcasts worldwide an extensive program of continuing medical education. Medical Missions for Children is headquartered at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital in Paterson, NJ. Visit for additional information.
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