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The goal of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) is to promote professional, ethical and equitable improvement in health care delivery through telecommunications and information technology. To align with this mission, Emerge.MD will promote two innovative telemedicine solutions: OnePlace^™ and Consult Accelerator^™.

OnePlace^™ is a virtual medical clinic that goes beyond conventional telemedicine to replicate online all aspects of a brick-and-mortar clinic. It expands care delivery beyond in-person encounters, offering workflow aware collaborative care any place, any time on any internet enabled device.

Consult Accelerator^™ allows institutions to manage their inbound referral network online by providing a referral application to community physicians to ease the process of patient referrals. Consequentially, institutions will have insights into their referral community and be able to make strategic decisions based upon the analytics provided through the referral applet.

Emerge.MD's Consult Accelerator^™ has been chosen as the preferred vendor to facilitate physician collaboration for Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI). CHI is a national nonprofit organization headquartered in Denver, with operations nationwide. Utilizing Consult Accelerator^™, CHI will be able to have medical professional interact with one-another in a real time collaborative environment to accelerate care delivery.

CHI will utilize Consult Accelerator^™ to allow administrators to manage, schedule, and contact physicians who are on call via a web-based voice, video, and screen-sharing environment for remote consultation functionality.

St. Joseph's Orange (SJO) has selected Emerge.MD's OnePlace^™ solution to facilitate their telemedicine services. SJO is a part of the Saint Joseph Health System, one of the largest not-for-profit health systems in the nation. Focusing on their rich tradition of service and compassionate care for the community, SJO will extend care to patients further via OnePlace^™, a virtual exam room in the sky.

Emerge.MD will deploy a web-based solution for SJO that will enable their staff to care for patients virtually regardless of their physical location, from any internet enabled device. It will enable them to review triage information, consult with hospital staff members, remote specialist, urgent and primary care physicians, home health nurses and virtually exam the patient wherever they might be.

For the second year, Emerge.MD was showcased in the Cisco booth at HIMSS in Orlando. HIMSS, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, is the largest telehealth conference in the nation, bringing together strategies, ideas, and insight to focus on advancing patient care. Emerge.MD utilized their OEM partnership with Cisco to facilitate Cisco's WebEx within their SaaS workflow engine solutions. Emerge.MD introduced two solutions at the show: OnePlace^™ Urgent Care and Consult Accelerator^™. OnePlace^™ enables patients to be cared for by a physician online in a virtual clinic with the same workflow as a physical institution. Consult Accelerator enables healthcare professionals to interact with one another in a real-time collaboration environment.

Emerge.MD was one of 3 organizations that Cisco had a press release around, the others being GE and their success at our joint client of St. Joseph Orange. Take a look:

• "Cisco to Highlight Health Innovation"
  Morningstar Article
• "Cisco, GE Healthcare Team on Patient, Equipment Tracking"
  InformationWeek Article

Emerge.MD's Consult Accelerator^™ solution was debuted at the International Congress of Endovascular Specialists (iCON). This year's iCON was the first global endovascular conference featuring the latest advances in technologies such as Consult Accelerator^™. Consult Accelerator^™ is a completely web-based collaborative solution that automates and coordinates encounters for healthcare professionals around the patient care cycle. With Consult Accelerator^™, iCON attendees witnessed the ability to remotely consult with physicians on complex cardiovascular pathologies as though the referring specialist were physically present.

Live from the operating room and iCON podium, conference attendees experienced the immediate use of Consult Accelerator^™. Experience it yourself:

• "Emerge.MD's Consult Accelerator^™ Introduced at the Arizona Heart Foundation's International Congress for Endovascular Specialists"
  Yahoo Finance Article
  YouTube Video
• "Arizona Heart Foundation and Barrow Neurosurgeons Leverage Emerge.MD's Consult Accelerator and OnePlace Solutions Using Cisco WebEx Technology to Demonstrate Real Time Clinical Collaboration and Enhance Surgical Management"
  Yahoo Finance Article
  InformationWeek Article

Emerge.MD has entered into an Original Equipment Manufacturing partnership with Cisco. Cisco is the leader in networking technology that transforms how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. Emerge.MD will leverage this relationship to utilize their collaboration technologies as a component within our solutions, including OnePlace, Healthcare Accelerators, and Community for Care.

Emerge.MD is a SaaS, Software as a Service company based in Phoenix, AZ, that is working to revolutionize healthcare through innovation. We provide solutions that have helped leading healthcare institutions, research organizations, advocacy groups, and individual physicians seamlessly interconnect their processes, patient care, and technology to create a collaborative, intuitive environment.

Emerge.MD has a new member joining the team; Vince Balsamo is now our new Vice President of Sales. Vince has over sixteen years in the IT industry, with the last eight focused in healthcare and life sciences. Vince comes to us from Cisco, our networking technology partner, before joining the Emerge.MD team. At Cisco, Vince worked as an Enterprise Regional Sales Manager in the West as well as a Business Development Manager. Our solutions are ready for a broader market and need Vince to be our seasoned professional to lead our sales organization.

Arizona State University, the largest university in the country, chose Emerge.MD’s research solution as the platform for their extensive Community Oriented Network to Enhance Clinical Trials and Research (CONECTR) online research platform. The College of Nursing and Health Innovation with use CONECTR as a clinical trial management system. ASU developed a strategic partnership with Quintiles, a leading clinical research organization that will supply research outcomes. Using Emerge.MD technology, CONECTR will enable a community of physicians to access the outcomes in order to help raise the bar of biomedical research excellence in the state of Arizona.

Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) and Emerge.MD have expanded the existing Master Service Agreement (MSA), initially signed in 2008, to include coverage for the new Emerge.MD solutions, OnePlace™ and Consult Accelerator™, that are focused on cloud based telemedicine and care team collaboration.

CHW is a system of more than forty hospitals and care centers serving communities in Arizona, California, and Nevada. The new Emerge.MD solutions will enable CHW to improve care team collaboration among its staff and partners, and expand the reach of its care to areas outside of its geographical regions.

STAT Doctors, a Scottsdale based virtual urgent and emergency care provider, has chosen Emerge.MD’s OnePlace™ collaborative care solution as their vendor to enable their telemedicine solution. The majority of the services provided by a brick-and-mortar urgent care clinic does not require a patient to be in the physical presence. Using Emerge.MD’s OnePlace™ solution, STAT Doctors will now be able to care for patients online in a virtual clinic with the same workflow as a physical institution, from start beginning to end.

Emerge.MD’s OnePlace™ solution enables patients to experience customary steps such as checking in at the front desk, pre-visit with a nurse, physician encounter, follow-up planning and payment management. OnePlace™ is the only cloud-based device agnostic telemedicine solution that is HIPAA, HITECH and FDA compliant.

At this year’s HIMSS conference in Atlanta, Cisco has asked Emerge.MD to be showcased in their booth. HIMSS, also known as Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, is the largest telehealth conference in the nation aimed at exchanging strategies, ideas, and insight to focus on advancing patient care. Cisco selected Emerge.MD for their cloud-based telemedicine services thanks to the complementary nature of Emerge.MD’s SaaS workflow engine with Cisco’s Webex service offering.

Phoenix Children’s Hospital (PCH) and Emerge.MD completed a MSA in the fall of 2009 for PCH to utilize Emerge.MD’s technology to manage all of their research. The Emerge.MD Communities for Care™ solution will provide PCH with compliance, standardization, increased capacity and cost savings across their extensive research projects.

Three projects have already been completed and deployed, and their success has led to plans being made to more closely integrate the technology with hospital technology systems. The three initial projects utilize Emerge.MD’s Communities for Care™ solution, that leverage our unique framework to create communities that bring together the multiple actors within the care cycle to share disease specific information, track the quality and outcomes of their care, receive education and collaborate with everyone involved in the continuum of care.

Over the past decade, Emerge.MD has been leveraging a unique workflow aware framework to offer web-based solutions that improve operational efficiencies around the complete healthcare cycle. Because of the response to our products in the market, the company has successfully raised its first round of angel funding. The funds will be used to continue expand our reach in the market place and support our clients.

Emerge.MD is pleased to announce that Eric V. Trappen has been promoted to Chief Executive Officer. He joined the company as Chief Operating Officer in January 2009.

Eric has over 17 years of experience of distinct professional experiences, and a demonstrated expertise in strategic planning and corporate leadership across all functions. Eric’s background includes a deep and diverse academic career, experience in most industries, and involvement working with all levels of corporate citizens, including extensive work at the “C-level”. Eric has worked with companies from initial concept all the way up to the Fortune 5, and served as executive management on numerous occasions. Eric has worked in the past at Salomon Smith Barney, Deloitte Consulting, Tpresence; a technology start-up, GenXL; a boutique Venture Capital firm, and has also operated his own successful consulting practice.

Eric has 4 Bachelor degrees in Mathematics, Finance, Business and Econometrics, as well as Masters degrees in Business (MBA) and a MS in Computer Science from institutions such as Carnegie Mellon University, Robert Morris University, and the University of Pittsburgh.