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SADA Systems and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group Honored as Recipients of the 2017 Microsoft Health Innovation Awards
e cloud services and technology consulting rm teamed up with the largest pediatric multispecialty medical group in the United States to help ght infant blindness in Armenia LOS ANGELES, CA - SADA Systems has announced it has been named a recipient of Microso ’s 2017 Health Innovation Awards, for a pioneering telemedicine project implemented with the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group. e initiative, led by omas C. Lee, M.D., Director of e Vision Center
at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, delivers remote training for eye surgeons in Armenia
in partnership with the Armenian EyeCare Project (AECP). e goal is to help reduce rates of infant blindness, which occurs three times
as o en in Armenia as in the United States and other Western countries.
e awards, announced at the 2017 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, Florida, recognize health organizations and their technology solution partners for using Microso devices and services in innovative ways that help engage patients, empower care teams, optimize clinical and operational e ectiveness, and transform the care continuum.
SADA Systems guided the selection and deployment of Microso ’s cloud collaboration and communication platform, Skype for Business Online, to help bridge the 7,000- mile gap between Los Angeles and Armenia.
Using Skype and Polycom videoconferencing endpoints, Dr. Lee can view the actual surgery in real time and communicate face to face with the surgical team. With AECP, Dr. Lee thus far has remotely trained two surgeons and observed four surgeries in Armenia live from his o ce in California. e retina scan images and related diagnoses hosted by OneDrive for Business make it possible for doctors to collaborate and reference past surgeries as needed.
“Working with SADA Systems and Microso gives me the opportunity to help surgical teams in Armenia without traveling and taking time away from my clinical duties here at home,” says Dr. Lee, who also is an associate professor of ophthalmology at the USC Roski Eye Institute at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. “We see the ability to scale this technology from our current capacity in Los Angeles to remote cities in the U.S., as well as other third world countries such as Armenia and neighboring rural regions. I am thrilled that I can provide my expertise to an important cause that is delivering real impact to children’s lives.”
“Microso ’s cloud-based Skype for Business platform is providing a foundation in which health organization can actually crowdsource surgical training, making world-renowned experts such as Dr. Lee accessible to healthcare providers around the world,” says Tony Safoian,
president and CEO of SADA Systems. “It’s wonderful to be recognized for a project that
is working toward eliminating preventable blindness for children, in areas where resources are scarce.”
“ e health industry is undergoing a seismic shi in which intelligent technologies are helping organizations, communities and individuals improve care by helping them better understand and share information,” said Laura Wallace, vice president, Health & Life Sciences, Microso . “ is year’s Microso Health Innovation Award recipients are advancing the goals of improved patient engagement and care coordination through their pioneering use of Microso devices, platforms and cloud services.” Recipients are highlighted on the Microso website at http://www.microso .com/ healthinnovationawards and on the Microso in Health blog.
ABOUT SADA SYSTEMS
SADA Systems, Inc. is a privately-held global leader in providing business and technology consulting services that transform organizations through cloud-based solutions. As a Microso National Solutions Provider, SADA Systems has gained global accolades as an exceptional service provider with proven expertise in enterprise consulting, cloud platform migration, custom application development, managed services, user
adoption and change management. Recognized on the Inc. 5000 America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies for nine years, CRN’s MSP Elite 150, Inc.’s 2016 Top 50 Workplaces and the 2015 Best Places to Work in Los Angeles, SADA prides itself on continuous innovation, strong partnerships and exceptional customer service. To learn more, visit: https://sadasystems.com/.
ABOUT CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES MEDICAL GROUP
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group comprises 596 physicians and 708 practitioners who lead the multidisciplinary clinical team
at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, a world- renowned pediatric academic medical center located in the heart of Hollywood, Calif. e majority of physicians in the group are also full-time faculty members at the Keck School
of Medicine of the University of Southern California. Nearly one-quarter of the group’s physicians are recognized as being among the best physicians in America as measured by their peers through lists such as “Best Doctors in America” and “America’s Top Doctors.” CHLAMG is an academic medical group, meaning that, in addition to providing direct care to patients, physicians teach medical students, residents and fellows and also conduct basic, clinical and translational research to advance pediatric health care. l
Intermedia Communication Solutions Enters into an Agreement with Altia Systems as Emea Distributor for the Revolutionary Panacast 2® Video Camera
PanaCast 2 – e world’s rst 180° Panoramic-4k plug-and-play USB video camera now ships from Europe following distribution agreement London, England - Intermedia Communication Solutions, specialist supplier of video equipment for the small videoconferencing room or Huddle Room, has announced that it had completed
a distribution agreement with Altia Systems
of Cupertino, California, USA, makers of the PanaCast 2® 180° Panoramic, 4k plug-and-play USB video camera.
e highly disruptive PanaCast 2 video camera is transforming the way people engage and collaborate over video. e many features include:
l An ultra-wide, natural looking eld-of-view with unparalleled visual clarity and immediate control over direct interaction
l A camera that delivers a 180o wide by 54o tall eld-of-view with 3840 x 1080 pixels per frame
l e ability to greatly reduce the optical distortion normally associated with such a wide eld which makes it a natural choice for small, so-called Huddle Rooms with no participants remaining out-of-shot
l Being able virtually to ‘look around’ the room by navigating through the video stream with familiar multi-touch gestures on personal devices, creating custom views without disturbing those of other participants
e PanaCast 2 camera is a plug-and-play device that works with popular enterprise collaboration services such as Skype® for Business and Zoom without requiring any driver or so ware installs Javed Tufail, Director Sales and Business Development says, “We welcome Intermedia
as a Distributor of PanaCast Cameras and are delighted that a company with Intermedia’s experience has joined the rapidly-expanding PanaCast channel community to represent the product in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. I am pleased that Intermedia will now be able to provide the product in EMEA along with the strong regional support that this remarkable camera deserves.”
Doug Pidduck, founder and CEO of Intermedia Communication Solutions added, “From rst sight, I knew that the PanaCast 2 would ll a much needed gap in the fast-growing Huddle Room segment of the video collaboration marketplace. e trick to successful
video meetings has always been to create
an outstanding user experience and a big part of that is to make the technology transparent. e PanaCast 2 frees the user from the tyranny of the much-disliked Pan, Tilt, Zoom or PTZ camera removing one big inhibiting factor to a relaxed and productive video meeting.”
More at https://www.intermedia.net/ and http://getpanacast.com/. l
METRO OPTIC AND I.C.E DATACENTERS announce the services of ThinkTel, the business services division of Distributel, o ering Microsoft ExpressRoute, Microsoft 365 and Skype for Business
MONTREAL, QC - I.C.E DATACENTERS (Interconnection & Colocation for Enterprise),
a neutral and independent provider of network- centric datacenters, and Metro Optic, their business unit specializing in the ownership and operation of ber optics, are pleased to announce a new agreement with inkTel, the business services division of Distributel. inkTel is a provider of advanced voice and data services for SMEs, large enterprises and wholesale service providers, including SIP Trunking, Microso O ce 365, ExpressRoute, and Microso Enterprise telephony solutions. ese services will be directly available at the I.C.E Datacenters
Interconnection Center located at 875 St-Antoine W. in Montreal and the Toronto datacenter in Markham, Ontario.
“We are proud to welcome inkTel
to our interconnection center and community
and to provide our customers and suppliers
with access to the essential services o ered by inkTel. We are con dent that inkTel will meet the ever-growing need for voice and data cloud services over private links with high quality and competitive prices for our customers and prospects,” said Benoit Pineault, Vice President of Business Development, I.C.E Datacenters and Metro Optic.
inkTel is the rst service provider to be independently certi ed to meet Microso ’s demanding standards for SIP Trunking and
is one of the rst providers to fully integrate advanced voice functionality with Lync, now known as Skype for Business, in local or hosted environments.
“We are very pleased to announce our presence at Metro Optic with inkTel services. is partnership will allow us to o er our SIP Trunking services, as well as leverage our expertise in
Skype for Business and enterprise telephony solutions directly with both the carriers and their customers,” said Matt Stein, CEO of Distributel.
“In addition, as an ExpressRoute partner inkTel will also o er bandwidth with QoS straight to the Microso cloud.”
As an expert in SIP protocol (industry
standard protocol for business VoIP service), inkTel has become an engine of innovation within the business telephony industry. eir telecommunications network has points of presence in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton and Vancouver, giving inkTel the largest coverage vs. competing local exchange carriers in Canada.
For more information, visit: www.distributel.ca, www.thinktel.ca, www.icedatacenters.com and www.metrooptic.com. l