SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. May 3, 2013 - The American Telemedicine Association’s Industry Council Awards is presented annually to recognize substantial contributions toward the advancement of telemedicine across the country and around the world. This year, Medweb CEO Dr. Peter Killcommons will be honored with the award for his leadership and championship in promoting and advocating for telemedicine, telehealth and e-health at international levels.
Dr. Killcommons has spent the past two decades as a medical entrepreneur and philanthropist dedicating his career to helping others through telemedicine and healthcare technology. He remains the only CEO of a major telemedicine firm to personally travel throughout active conflict and disaster zones, gaining extensive firsthand knowledge of the transformative potential of telemedicine on the frontlines for soldiers and civilians alike. In partnership with Rotary International and other charitable organizations, he has made over a dozen trips outside the wire to civilian hospitals in impoverished rural areas of eastern Afghanistan, donating technology and his expertise at clinical facilities serving thousands of underserved patients. Dr. Killcommons has also sailed with the US Navy’s hospital ship Comfort on a humanitarian mission to Peru, to which he donated time and medical equipment as they performed medical, surgical, and dental work for local villagers. He has led and supported telemedicine programs in Haiti, Honduras, Armenia, Argentina, Iraq, Kosovo, Kuwait, Antigua, and on the world’s most remote inhabited island of Tristan da Cunha, among others.
As a businessman, Peter Killcommons has garnered recognition from the San Francisco Chronicle for spearheading the integration of medical imaging over the Internet. In recent years, he has introduced innovations such as hand carried deployable cell phone networks to create massively scalable communications infrastructure for underserved rural areas. Another exciting advancement that Killcommons has been responsible for is the announcement of a new partnership between Medweb and DocbookMD with the launch of a new product DOCBOOK Gateway at the American Telemedicine Association show on May 5, 2013 in Austin, Texas.
DOCBOOK Gateway is set forth to revolutionize the telemedicine field by providing secure (military encryption) sharing of urgent labs, images and reports directly to a doctor’s smartphone or tablet from multiple hospitals and information systems. DOCBOOK Gateway will allow for physicians and first responders to share and access critical patient information wherever they are located and from multiple hospital systems. This type of messaging system will ensure that patient care is never comprised due to remoteness of patient or healthcare physician location or the inability to access and share critical stat reports, images, and lab values.
The development of this partnership is one example of Dr. Killcommons’ lifelong dedication to telemedicine and healthcare technology to ensure that all healthcare providers have access to the best systems and that patient care is at the highest level it can be.
About Medweb
Medweb has been setting the industry standard for telemedicine for over 20 years with secure, innovative, and easy to use solutions for a variety of government, military, commercial, academic and humanitarian institutions. The company’s integrated ecosystem of Teleradiology, Telemedicine, mobile health and Disaster Response IT solutions includes a diverse array of image and data acquisition, routing, storage and display technologies. Medweb provides a scalable, patented web-based telemedicine server platform, fully customizable to meet the needs of clinical specialists and administrators. Medweb has designed and implemented hundreds of security enhancements beyond those available on most traditional PACS and telemedicine systems, seamlessly integrating the most advanced cyber security enhancements available.