Digital Medical Home

By:   Michael S Gorton, Jay H Sanders
Imprint:   Mark Victor Hansen Library
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 11mm
Weight:   345g
ISBN:   9798885810722
Pages:   172
Publication Date:   18 November 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

"Mr. Gorton, co-founder of Recuro Health, is a 14-time Serial Entrepreneur and bestselling author whose companies have created industries, and tens of billions of dollars in wealth. He has experience building both public and private companies in the digital health, telecom, music, energy, healthcare, book publishing, aerospace, education and water remediation industries. Throughout his executive career, Michael has founded and led industry-changing companies, including Internet Global, Teladoc, Palo Duro Records, Principal Solar, Back To Space and Recuro Health. Michael is credited with being one of the pioneer/creators of the telemedicine industry, now approaching a half-trillion dollars globally. The Texas Business Hall of Fame has recently added Gorton to their Board.In 2021, Gorton and John Halsey along with some of the pioneers of telemedicine and digital health, created Recuro Health, a company that has developed a Digital Medical HomeTM. Recuro now serves three million members with the next generation of care, delivered through brokers, TPA's and several of the Fortune Fifty companies. The Company has been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Tech Pioneer in Healthcare, and by Ernst & Young as one of the nation's fasted growing companies.As CEO, Chairman, and Founder of Teladoc, Gorton led a telemedicine company that was named by MIT as one of the Top 50 Smartest Companies in the World. Teladoc is now the world's leading telemedicine company with a NYSE market cap in the tens of billions of dollars. The digital and telemedicine industry, which Gorton helped to launch, is now approaching a half-trillion-dollar industry. Gorton was the founding CEO of Principal Solar, a public company he led to become one of the thought leaders in the solar industry worldwide, that delivered 400 megawatts of sustainable electricity, enough to run approximately 70,000 American homes. With Internet Global, he led the company from concept to the #1 ranked Internet provider in North Texas and the construction of the world's first DSL network and one of the first national VOIP networks. He is currently starting a roll up in the telehealth and digital health industries, with a goal of fixing some of the major issues in healthcare today. Michael S. GortonCEO and FounderRecuro Healthhttps: //recurohealth.com/ Jay H. Sanders, M.D. is President and CEO of The Global Telemedicine Group, Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Adjunct), a Founding Board Member of the American Telemedicine Association where he serves as President Emeritus and headed the FCC's Rural Healthcare Fund and was the Scientific, Military and Medical Advisory Committee of the National Science Foundation ASSIST center developing medical sensors at North Carolina State University. He is identified by his colleagues as the ""Father of Telemedicine"".Dr. Sanders has served on the NASA Biological and Physical Research Space Advisory Committee, as a consultant to the NASA Space Communication Center and was the Scientific Director for the NASA Medical Informatics and Technology Applications Commercial Space Center.He has been a consultant to the Army's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) at Ft. Detrick, the CIO of the Military Healthcare System, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Air Force Center for Telehealth and Theater Informatics, the Veteran Administration, and previously was appointed the only civilian member of the Department of Defense Telemedicine Board of Directors with the Surgeon Generals of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Dr. Sanders has served as a consultant to the Southern Governors' Homeland Security Telehealth Anti-Bioterrorism Task Force and was the Principal Investigator of a grant from the Office of the Secretary of Defense related to First Responder education and standards.He was appointed by former Secretary of HHS, Michael Leavitt, to the Chronic Care Workgroup of the American Health Information Community Committee, and during the Clinton Administration he directed the U.S. telemedicine initiatives to the G-8 nations. Additionally, he has been a consultant to the World Health Organization on Health Telematics, as well as a consultant to the Russian Telemedicine Foundation.He was a consultant to the MIT Media Lab, Vesalius Ventures, a Venture Capital Firm focusing on telehealth, medical informatics, and medical sensors and to Columbia University School of Medicine and their Center for Advanced Technology. He was formerly Visiting Professor at Yale University School of Medicine and Professor of Medicine and Surgery and Director of the Telemedicine Program at the Medical College of Georgia, where he held the Eminent Scholar Chair in Telemedicine. He headed the Medical Advisory Committee of the National Science Foundation-North Carolina State University ASSIST Nanosystems Center.Dr. Sanders earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School Magna Cum Laude and was a member of AOA. He did his residency training at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston where he became Chief Medical Resident and did a research fellowship in Immunology at the National Institutes of Health. Following residency training, Dr. Sanders joined the University of Miami School of Medicine where he initiated the concept and established the first Division of General Medicine in the Department of Medicine in any Academic Medical Center. As Chief of that Division, he also headed the Medical Intensive Care Unit, the Medical House Staff Program and the Medical Division of the Emergency Department. He attained the rank of Professor of Medicine within six years after the completion of his Chief Residency and was Chief of Medicine at the University of Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital, the largest teaching hospital in the Southeastern United States.Jay H. Sanders, M.D.President and CEOThe Global Telemedicine Group"