The State of Oregon Expands Statewide
Telemedicine Network

Gardena, CA (January 10, 2001) — The State of Oregon has chosen Second Opinion software as its telemedicine solution in linking the sites of the Oregon Child Abuse Telemedicine Project. Over the past two years two regional centers and ten rural satellite offices have been established.  This year they are opening an additional regional center and five satellite locations.  Using standard telephone lines, a site can send questionable images for review to a specialist more familiar with the signs of abuse.  This enables rural practitioners to treat children in their own communities, while maintaining access to a specialist at a larger medical center. Second Opinion is also used to provide peer review support and ongoing medical education within the network.

About Second Opinion:

Second Opinion supports image capture from scanners, video devices, digital camera, and CD-ROM libraries and transmits them over low bandwidth communication lines. Point to point interactive connectivity and email store and forward capabilities are both available.