[telemedicine] IDEATel Maintains Relationship with American TeleCare

[Medical Informatics News]

American TeleCare, Inc

. has been re-selected by the Informatics for Diabetes Education and
Telemedicine (IDEATel) Consortium as the primary telehealth technology provider for another

four-year, $4.5 million project serving rural and inner-city New York residents with diabetes. From* American
TeleCare’s PRNewswire release:


The IDEATel project is the largest telemedicine research study ever funded by the federal government with over 1,600
patients to date randomized into the study.* The project originally began in 2000 to study the efficacy of
telemedicine in improving patients’ quality-of-life and reducing overall health care costs.** Because of the
initial success of the project, Congress

extended the study for an additional four years.


”With telemedicine, we are giving patients the tools they need to take control of their diabetes and take better
care of themselves through monitoring, access to information and education,” said Steven Shea, M.D., Chief, Division of
General Medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, the Hamilton Southworth
Professor of Medicine and

Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the project’s Principal
Investigator.

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