The Alaska Federal Healthcare Access Network (AFHCAN) offers a diagnostic “store and forward” telehealth platform with the ability to create a telemedicine case with textual information and data from biomedical peripherals, and send data for consultation.
Health care professionals are able to view the data and respond to the case using a standard PC workstation.
Telehealth connects approximately 180 Alaska Native community village clinics, 25 subregional clinics, 4 multiphysician health centers, 6 regional hospitals, and the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage.
[1] Through growing acceptance of telehealth, more than 700 users in Alaska continually provide feedback and request new products and features.
As a part of its mission, AFHCAN continues to review, develop, and deploy new telehealth technologies.