Industry pioneers launch TeleHealth International Partnership

A new global telehealth partnership launched by Georgia-based telehealth pioneers is looking to deliver worldwide access to healthcare.

The TeleHealth International Partnership (TIP) is chaired by Jay Sanders, MD, who is known as the “father of medicine,” and its vice president is former astronaut and venture capitalist specialist Bernard Harris. Others on the team include David Flannery, MD, a clinical geneticist in the Medical College of Georgia of Georgia Health Sciences University and Jeffrey Kesler, MD, chief operating officer of the Georgia Partnership for Telehealth.

TIP’s CEO is Paula Guy, who also is CEO of the Global Partnership for TeleHealth.

“It has been my vision to bring together a team of this caliber that the industry has yet to see. The time has finally come for ‘the father of telemedicine’, an astronaut physician and a very gifted geneticist to work with us to lead the company in changing lives all over the world,” said Guy in a statement.

TIP’s goal is increasing access to innovative technology, including telemedicine and health information exchange. This includes expansion of e-clinical enabled platforms that have a wide range of customization, interoperability and portability features to advance treatment along the care continuum.

TIP members have had successes in applied telehealth and telemedicine initiatives and services in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, schools, correctional facilities, emergency departments, trauma centers, stroke centers, primary care offices, child advocacy organizations and continuing education services. This network includes 300 patient locations and more than 200 specialists and healthcare providers representing more than 40 specialties, according to a release.

For more information on the partnership, go here.