LifeBot announced today that renowned telemedicine expert, Dr. Jay H. Sanders, considered by many as the "Father of Telemedicine", has joined up with Team LifeBot.
Phoenix, AZ, USA April 22, 2013 : LifeBot announced today that renowned telemedicine expert, Dr. Jay H. Sanders, considered by many as the "Father of Telemedicine", has joined up with Team LifeBot. Dr. Sanders is one of the founders, and past presidents of the American Telemedicine Association.
He was also one of the chief reviewers at the Telemedicine and Technology Resource Center (TATRC) of the original LifeBot DREAMS™ technologies. TATRC is a part of U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, which invested over $14 million in development of DREAMS™.
LifeBot will display this advanced telemedicine system at the American Telemedicine Association Meeting, May 5-7 in Austin, Texas. Featured will be the new LifeBot 5 system which is a "deploy anywhere, at any time" portable lightweight telemedicine solution.
| "We are very proud to be associated with Dr. Sanders", stated LifeBot Chairman and CEO, Roger Heath. Dr. Sanders and Mr Heath share some common history. In 1974, both were involved with deployment of the first emergency telemedicine, or telemetry systems, associated with famed anesthesiologist Dr. Eugene Nagle, giving birth to the modern concept of advanced prehospital care or the paramedic. |
Dr. Sanders has served as a member of the NASA Biological and Physical Research Advisory Committee as well as the Scientific Director of the NASA Medical Informatics and Technology Applications Commercial Space Center and was a consultant to the NASA Space Communication Center.
He has also been a consultant to the Army’s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), the Air Force Center for Telehealth and Theater Informatics, and has served on the Department of Defense Telemedicine Board of Directors with the Surgeon Generals of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
In the area of bioterrorism defense, Dr. Sanders sat on the Southern Governors Task Force on Telehealth and Homeland Security.and was the Principal Investigator of a grant from the Office of the Secretary of Defense related to First Responder education and standards.
He was appointed by former Secretary of HHS, Michael Leavitt, to the Chronic Care Workgroup, and during the Clinton Administration he directed the U.S. telemedicine initiatives to the G-8 nations. Additionally, he has been a consultant to the World Health Organization on Health Telematics, as well as a consultant to the Russian Telemedicine Foundation.
He was a consultant to Columbia University School of Medicine as well as to their Center for Advanced Technology and was formerly Visiting Professor at Yale University School of Medicine and Professor of Medicine and Surgery and Director of the Telemedicine Program at the Medical College of Georgia, where he held the Eminent Scholar Chair in Telemedicine.
Dr. Sanders was a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Federal Communications Commission Universal Service Administrative Corporation, as well as Chairman of its Rural Health Care Committee, and served on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Friends of the National Library of Medicine.
He served on the Southern Governors Association Task Force on Medical Technology, the FCC Telemedicine Advisory Committee, and the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Science Telemedicine Evaluation Committee.
Dr. Sanders earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School Magna Cum Laude and was a member of AOA. He did his residency training at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston where he became Chief Medical Resident, and did a research fellowship in Immunology at the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Sanders has spent the majority of his professional career involved in teaching, patient care and health care research. He has spent over 30 years in the development and implementation of telecommunications and information technologies as a means of addressing the problems relating to quality, cost and access to care that now plague our health care system. He designed the telemedicine system for the State of Georgia that interfaces with rural hospitals, public health facilities, correctional institutions, ambulatory health care centers, military bases and public school classrooms. He initiated a project at the Medical College of Georgia in the early 90s that introduced the first telemedicine technology into the patient’s home, called the Electronic House Call, that allowed for the evaluation of their clinical status.
The author of numerous articles on telemedicine, he was a Senior Editor of the Telemedicine and e-Health Journal, Deputy Editor of the International e-Health Journal, and has served on the editorial boards of the Telemedicine Newsletter, Telemedicine Report, The Telemedicine Connection, Telemedicine and Telehealth Networks and Telemedicine and Virtual Reality. He is also an editor of the book, “Telemedicine: Theory and Practice” a Charles C. Thomas publication. Dr. Sanders is a consultant for many academic, governmental, public and industries.
About LifeBot:
LifeBot, a telemedicine solutions company, provides exclusive patented and military developed technologies for healthcare. These systems are used to send and receive live video, voice and patient vital-sign data transmissions primarily in support of heart, trauma and stroke victims. Telemedicine is the interactive exchange of medical information and care from one site to another via electronic communications to reduce risks, improve patients’ health status and reduce costs.
LifeBot was founded by Roger Lee Heath, the inventor businessman who made possible the life-saving Automatic External Heart Defibrillator (AED) and who is sole inventor of more than 34 patents related to the field of medical technology.
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