FAA Approves CompuMed as Telecardiology Vendor

If you are a physician who conducts aviation related physicals, there's a new device on the list to send information directly back to the FAA, or if you are a pilot going through the routine physical, you may soon find one of these devices in use by the physician...BD

Los Angeles – December 03, 2007 -- CompuMed, Inc. (CMPD.OB) - a medical informatics company serving the healthcare community with diagnostic software solutions - today announced that it has begun shipping its CardioGram(TM) enhanced electrocardiogram (ECG) machines to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Senior Aviation Medical Examiners (Sr. AME). CompuMed is a leader in providing ECG equipment and services to more than 1,000 locations throughout the U.S and performing nearly 400,000 transtelephonic ECG interpretations annually.
Sr. AMEs are doctors providing pilot medical screening services required by the Aeromedical Certification Division of the FAA. CompuMed's CardioGram machines are compatible with the FAA's ECG Administrative Data System and are able to transmit ECG data directly to the FAA.
CompuMed has added 25 Sr. AMEs to its customer base during the first step of the program. According to the FAA there are more than 1,700 Sr. AMEs in the US.
Using a CompuMed ECG terminal, an ECG can be acquired from a patient, telecommunicated to CompuMed’s central computers, analyzed and received back on the ECG terminal where the ECG trace and computer interpretation are printed, all within 3 minutes.
If desired, CompuMed can immediately provide an overread by a Cardiologist and return the results within an hour. CompuMed currently provides its CardioGram services to nearly 1000 government and corporate healthcare facilities, clinics and hospitals nationwide.

CompuMed - news release - 2007

http://www.compumed.net/

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