GlobalMedia Group Featured in National Magazine

(Scottsdale, AZ – February 4, 2010) - - Global Media Group, LLC is featured in the new issue of Future Healthcare Magazine in its cover story, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.”  The article details how the Scottsdale firm is designing telemedicine solutions that allow practitioners to deliver quality healthcare, no matter the distance.   The complete article is available in the “Future HealthCare” Magazine section.  Click on “Healthcare Articles” and then January 2010.

In an interview with the magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Jamie Devereaux, GlobalMedia Managing Director Joel Barthelemy explains that telemedicine is becoming more attractive now because it can cut costs and increase patient satisfaction and care.  And he notes that all GlobalMedia products “are truly designed from a perspective of changing the difficult nature of capturing images for our users.” 

The article highlights GlobalMedia’s unique products like CapSure® and the TotalExam™ Camera.  Both came about as a response to a need.  “We started working with the pathologists to design a software program that would allow them to grab instant images from what they were seeing on their microscope cameras,” Barthelemy says.  The result is CapSure, an innovative “Store-and-Forward” software product.

Until the TotalExam, the existing camera technology was “big, bulky and, in a lot of ways, obsolete.”  Barthelemy and his staff began working on a new camera.  “And as we were drawing on a whiteboard with a dry-erase marker, we thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be nice if the camera was just like that marker?’”  Their efforts produced a lightweight video camera with built-in lighting of different temperatures, including ultraviolet light, with the ability to create a still frame of the video.  Barthelemy says that emergency room doctors have told him that “this camera should be in every emergency room department.”

Among the first to use CapSure in a pathology setting, Dr. Stephen Coons – the chief of neuropathology at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix – sees the benefits on a daily basis.  He says it allows residents the opportunity to function independently in a field of medicine that gradually gets more complicated.  “What I like about this system,” Coons says, “is it lets the residents sit at the microscope, without an attending physician actually operating the microscope and without an attending looking over their shoulder.” 

Coons also believes the CapSure system is a tremendous time-saver for pathologists who have two offices or laboratories, like him.  He no longer has to make the five minute walk to the lab to view a frozen section, making his day more efficient.  “The second thing about the time savings of not having to go to a remote location is that I have already called the surgeon, so they get their answer sooner,” Coons says.