TeleHealth Services, a leading provider of integrated communication, education and entertainment solutions for the hospital and healthcare market, today announced partnerships with several major hospital systems throughout the country in 2007, representing a 26 percent growth over the previous year. New 2007 hospital partners include Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Prentice Women’s Hospital in Chicago, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System in Baltimore, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Greenwich Hospital in Connecticut, Blanchard Valley Hospital in Ohio and Regions Hospital in Minnesota. TeleHealth also completed large-scale LCD television installations at UCLA Medical Center in California and Centerpoint Regional Medical Center in Missouri, as well as one of the nation’s first high definition hospital systems at Intermountain Healthcare in Utah.
TigrNet™, one of TeleHealth’s core communication services, delivers an array of interactive communications tools: on-demand education videos, multimedia education content, and access to hospital services – from directories and meal selections, to chaplain services and more. Patients can have access to the internet and their email, along with an expanded lineup of television channels, movies, video games and other activities.
“TeleHealth is proud to be working with some of the nation’s top hospitals in enhancing the total patient experience and increasing the productivity and efficiency of overworked healthcare professionals,” said George Fleming, President and CEO of Telerent Leasing Corporation, parent of TeleHealth Services. “Our systems deliver satisfied patients, families and staff members, while providing hospitals with a distinctive competitive advantage in technology, education, communication and entertainment.”
Patients and families can identify and select services independently — from watching a video on car seat safety or heart-healthy menus, to accessing hospital discharge instructions or gift shop hours, to requesting chaplain services or learning more about the hospital.
“The flexibility and robust features of TigrNet, plus TeleHealth’s consultative approach to meeting customers’ goals, have allowed hospitals to offer patients an array of self-service options, as well as enhanced opportunities for interacting with their healthcare professionals,” Fleming said.
Other TeleHealth products and services include TIGR Video-on-Demand Education, TRMS Rental Management System, healthcare televisions and mounting systems, infant protection and patient wandering systems, nurse call systems, security and access control systems, signal receiving systems and consulting services.
About TeleHealth Services
TeleHealth Services, headquartered in Raleigh, NC, is the nation’s leading provider of integrated communications solutions for the healthcare market: bedside access to entertainment, education and services; patient and staff video-on-demand education systems; hospital-grade televisions and accessories; education and entertainment content; as well as installation, maintenance and financing services. TeleHealth Services is a division of Telerent Leasing Corporation, which has been headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, since its founding in 1957. Telerent itself is a wholly-owned subsidiary of ITOCHU International, Inc., a U.S. company based in New York City.