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TotalExam is an examination camera that can provide close-up images of skin, eyes or throat. The photos show the camera with the derma-cone attachment. The piece that comes into contact with the patient is a disposable plastic collar that slips over the derma-cone’s widest opening. You would use the derma-cone for images of the skin or the eyes. The other attachment is for throat examinations. It clips on to the TotalExam at the narrowest part of the camera nearest the lens. A slot accepts a standard tongue depressor.

The camera does not auto-focus for a reason. Auto-focus cameras don’t always focus on what the physician wants to see, and they don’t do the same kind of contact close-ups TotalExam does. If you wish to focus on the raised ridge of a lesion, for example, you merely turn TotalExam to the right or left with the derma-cone against the skin to fine-focus on what you want to see.

The tongue depressor can also be used to measure for pictures 10cm or 15cm away from a patient’s skin, using the tongue depressor in the tongue depressor adapter as a distance guide.

There are three pre-set marks on TotalExam. The “one mark” is for skin or eye close-ups. The “two mark” is set for shots of the throat, and the “third mark” position is for general video of a patient two feet away to infinity.

There are only two buttons on TotalExam. The first cycles through the five onboard lights – three white temperature lights and two ultra-violet light temperatures. It automatically white balances, but it is the only camera in the world that Skin Tone Balances. This enables the practitioner to get images with good detail of patients who are dark-complected without turning on a light as bright as the sun. The other button takes a freeze frame image.

The focus adjustment is the only other control. It is the barrel part of the camera nearest to the lens.

AfterCare Text

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AfterCare Text is a texting platform where patients receive a series of text messages after they are discharged from the hospital.  The messages advise patients on wellness tips specific to their condition as well as follow-up appointment reminders and hospital nurse-line information.

The goal is to help patients, and their at-home caregivers, better manage their care after discharge.  Patients benefit by staying on track with appointments and wellness.  Providers benefit by reducing the 30-day hospital readmission rate, which may not be reimbursed in the future. To learn more, visit www.GoInfield.com

Remote Pharmacist Controlled Telepharmacy System

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PharmaTrust MedCenter is a remote pharmacist controlled telepharmacy system that provides patient focused care through convenient access to prescription medications as well as personalized pharmacist counseling with each dispense via live two-way audio/video conferencing.  The pharmacist, assisted by the MedCenter's semi-automation, maintains complete control over the entire process and is able to remotely dispense more than 1800 different prescribed medication SKU’s right at the point of prescribing.  PharmaTrust MedCenters can be utilized to serve patients within a variety of locations including, hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, employer locations, and seniors residence. 

A Lens Free Telemedicine Microscope

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A lens free telemedicine microscope that weighs <1.6 ounces is shown.
This microscope is powered and controlled through USB and achieves sub-cellular resolution over a large field of view of >24mm^2. For more information see Ozcan Research Group @ UCLA.

Telecytopathology

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cell phone camera with a microscopic image on the screen
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BioSciCon, Inc. is developing Mobile & IT Telehealth Center for Telecytopathology Services in the Shady Grove Innovation Center and the Johns Hopkins University, Montgomery County Campus in Rockville, MD. Exchange of microscopic images for distant diagnosis (telecytopathology) is increasingly important, since low resource areas throughout the world cannot provide diagnosis on site.

The first wide application is planned to be in cervical cancer early detection. Women are still dying of a preventable cervical cancer. There are 4,000 deaths in the US and 250,000 women die annually worldwide.
BioSciCon has developed a proprietary biomarker-enhanced Pap test that is particularly amenable for telecytopathology. Abnormal cervical cells are highlighted by the red-colored biomarker and low-trained technician, or nurse in a doctor's office can recognize them and easily transmit images of suspect cells to a distant place to be diagnosed by pathologist. Transmission can be done with conventional digital camera mounted on the microscope or, most recently, BioSciCon is trying to use cell phone camera instead. To see comparisons of images captured with a digital CCD camera and images captured with a cell phone camera click on: Figures.

The Telehealth Center is designed as a modular system composed of several Image Acquisition Units (small labs and doctor offices equipped with a low cost set of instruments to acquire and transmit images), few Image Analytical Units (for evaluation) and Central Processing Unit (servers).

For more information go to: www.bioscicon.com, or e-mail: info@bioscicon.com or tel: 301-610-9130.